The Part of Family Values - NOT

I regularly try to expose the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the anti-gay Republicans and the Christianists. Yes, they DO provide so much material. :) I found this site, Republican Offenders, via Pam's House Blend and love the site from what I have read of it so far. It contains a compilation of huges numbers of accounts of "family values" Republican officials of all levels of government involved in all kinds of less than Christian value activities. Not surprisingly, many of these self-professed guardians of family values have a predeliction for sex with minors, particulary under age boys.

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In my view, a perusal of this site confirms that the GOP views the "values voters" as a bunch of easily duped cretins who can be routinely induced to go to the polls based on a couple of hot button issues - gay bashing being one of the most favored - like lemmings. These "values voters" end up voting for individuals who must be secretly laughing at the whole affair. I am not against religion or people of faith. However, I do have a very hard time with people who are intellectually dishonest and/or lazy and who refuse to think for themselves and not be led by the nose like simpletons.

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In essence, religious fundamentalism is defined in my opinion as religious belief that shields the believer from having to exercise independent thought and/or analyze facts and reach a fact based conclusion. This fear of thinking in turn leads to a slavish idolatry to ritual (e.g., traditional Catholics) and closed mindedness. The end result is that demagogues - think Benedict XVI, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Karl Rove, etc. - play these people like a violin with the sheeple (to use one of Pam Spaulding's terms that I love) being blindly lead by those who use them for control, political power and personal wealth. It is a sad situation brought on by their own "deeply held religious beliefs." The GOP continues to cynically use these folks and they never catch on that they are being used.