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Originally posted by PatrickHenry,
How do you explain the current rejection of homosexuals marrying? There aren't enough religious dogmatists in America to constitute a majority of voters. There is something else at work here. What is it? |
I don't know where you live but in the US about 85% of the population routinely engages in magical thinking. Also the religious leaders of this country very effectively conflated gay marriage as an assault on god. It doesn't take much in the way of religious fervor to vote against the rights of gays if you are being taught that god doesn't like it. What has happened is that religious voters were encouraged to vote their religion in a political matter and completely ignore the values of America. They were encouraged to ignore the values that your namesake fought for. It was very much a war of values and American values lost. We cannot keep the republic. As Madison and Jefferson feared, it is being torn down by the religious.
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