Jay Riemersma is campaigning for Congress in Grand Haven and Holland today on a Christian Fundamentalist platform. Here’s a better attitude about mixing religion and politics from a great but fictional Republican–Senator Arnold Vinick, played by Alan Alda on The West Wing.
(The original video is no longer available, with the original clip present at the end of the longer segment posted above.)
This post points out exactly what I said: we’ve seen the small steps. I’m a gay woman who is now a second class citizen in my own home because those with a certain religious viewpoint got an amendment into the state constitition that prevents me from marrying the person I love.
Religion does not belong in politics or public policy. It belongs in the homes and churches of its adherents. And I wish that those adherents would stop for one second and realize that their beliefs are for their own lives and nobody else’s. Otherwise, it’s just a weapon with one purpose: to hurt people.