'This Is Not a Bluff'

Why does the religious right refer to themselves as "values voters"? This is so silly to me. 100% of voters in the country vote their values. When liberals chose a prochoic candidate they do so because they value a woman's right to choose and to govern her own body and they don't consider a 4 week old fetus a human being. When they vote for a candidate that supports gay marriage they do so because they value freedom and equality and recognize that the union of a same sex couple does not mean they love their spouse any less. These are values just as much as any other. So it perplexes me when the religious right proclaims to be value voters as if they are the only people in this country with values. It's completely ridiculous!

What happened to seperation of Church and State? I thought that was the founding principles of America and the Constitution? Course they are trying to change that to their liking as they did with the old testiment and then the new testiment and of course the King James version. This would not work as there are too many Christians that dont take the hard line that the puritans to the right have taken in recent years.

When are we going to seperate Church from State as the original intent of the United States Government and Constitution. The Christian Right does not stand a chance with their own party. There are lots of Christians that dont practice the hate that the Right does.

One percent of the population holding plus 90% of the wealth. This is a joke. These so called evangelicals is nothing more than a group whose god is green. David had his 'Mighty Men' and so does the USA. However, ours are not glorified but crusified. A lot of these tv and radio program are about lining people poclets. Willie Means-bilbi2shire@yahoo.com

Its funny how when we hit a cord with the fanatical right, they always resort to name calling and trying to impugn the character and intelligence of those who disagree. If they could only come up with a time in the history of the world when a religious based government worked then I would listen! Keep calling us names, you just make our case for us!

After reading this very interview, I, an American Indian, strongly feel that the Christians are not really abiding the 10 Commandments. Plus, are they really speaking for God? Was God sitting in Heaven saying to himself, "Hey, America is in chaos, maybe I should have my Army of Christian fundalmentalists do my bidding."

I don't think so because;
1. The Christians should remember that God loves all (no matter who they are).
2. God didn't put us on earth to Judge others (Read the the Book of Matthews: Judging others).
3. Sounds like that the Christians (right-wing) wants a utopian nation (aint gonna happen).

I might as well start a third party and call it "More freedom for all Americans" Party.

Christian radicals brought Bush to power twice - doesn't that tell us enough? This sort of dogma is what is ruining the world - the bible is a collection of stories written by PEOPLE not GOD - get some perspective. Divide church and state once and for all - religion is private, let's keep it that way.

First the fundamentalist Muslims attack the World Trade Center; then the fundamentalist Christians attack Iraq and sacrifice our loved ones on the altar of their god, saying all the time - God Bless America. If this doesn't show the danger of letting fundamentalists co opt our government, I don't know how much more proof we need. The world will be a safer and saner place without religious fundamentalists in control of the weapons they are so eager to use to make everyone conform to their deluded way of thinking.

History has shown repeatedly that a third-party candidate has never won a presidential election. This response shows that these Christian activists need to take a history lesson.

History has shown repeatedly that a third-party candidate has never won a presidential election. This response shows that these Christian activists need to take a history lesson.

You Want A Government Run By Religion?........Move To Iran

The US fights Islamists, but seems willing to court Christianists. Why is one religion's extremists okay while the other is not? Christian "activists" in this country have no place in meddling with politics; the result can only be bad for everyone, both Christian and non-Christian alike.

The thought of the United States moving from a secular government to a theocracy is horrifying. Jesus realized this--"give to Caesar what is Caesar's"--and so did amazingly wise founders of our country in the very first amendment to the Consitution. Religion has no place in govnerment, and whenever governments align themselves with religions, bad things always happen. The temptation to corruption and the abuse of power it just too great--even for well-intentioned, genuinely religious people. The best thing for Christianity (and for all religious practice) is to maintain a secular government that does not interfere with, administer, or attempt to align the government with any particular religion.

WELL PUT SCOOTER WHICH RELIGION WILL RULE OVER ALL, AND HOW MANY WILL WE HANG ,AS THEY WERE IN ENGLAND, WHEN WE LEFT IT TO COME HERE AND NOT REPETE THERE SAME MISTAKE!

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE OLD WAYS WOMEN SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM BUT I WAS POINTING OUT WHY IT SHOULD NOT BE DRAWN INTO A POLITICAL STREAM OF THINGS OR CAUSE MAN WANTS POWER AND WOMAN WATS BALANCE THEY WILL MAKE YOU A TARGET AGAIN AND THAT IS NOT RIGHT AT ALL SO DO YOUR THING AND IF YOU WANT RELIGION IN POLITICS I SUGGEST YOU TELL THE POPE HE IN NO LONGER TAX EXEMPT IN THE USA, THANKS TO TV WATABEES.
PEACE

Do these leaders of the Christian Right really have any idea as to the meaning of Christianity? They are out to promote a faith based Government that will legislate morality, kind of like the Government???s based in the Middle East. Who will be the Grand Inquisitor of the faithful that will preside and judge over those who sin? Which religion will be practiced, will it be Catholicism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, or Buddhism and will there be trials for those who don???t practice the chosen religion, will these individuals be found guilty of heresy and tortured or put to death??? World history has shown what happens when a faith based Government comes to power and how this power corrupts. We have witnessed in the Middle East how a faith based government controls the media and lives of the people how their civil liberties and religious freedoms have been replaced with religious persecution. Our history is full of the carnage that man wages against man by the leaders in the name of religion that one will find glory in the destruction of a people of a different faith.

So who are these leaders of the Religious Right that they would cast aside religious freedom for all for a one faith Government? Will they practice religious tolitarianism whereby the government controls all aspects of our lives or will they show compassion and tolerance? They, so far, have shown no compassion and tolerance and they have promoted their own agenda. They fought so hard to keep a brain dead woman alive and yet they show no compassion to the children of this country who have no health care. They show no tolerance to the gay community and feel and say that these individuals are an aberration and should be shown no humanity and yet members of their own faith based community have been caught indulging in this practice. They are the Pharisees who seek control and power for their own self serving gratification and in no way have shown any of the Christian principles that we are to live by like aiding the poor, caring for the sick, fighting injustice and seeking peace over war.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely and if we give these so called faith based individuals that kind of power then all that this country stands for, the freedom that we hold dear to us, the sacrifices of all those who died to preserve our nation will have been in vain. This is not a fight against religion or faith but a fight against individuals who seek their own ambition and glorification over the faith that they had chosen to represent. If these people had true faith, then they would believe in the free will that God had granted all mankind.