America is America to us all: A plea for faith and right action

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Folks, we have an historic opportunity here. Even if we cannot oust
the fraud from office, we can certainly limit his so-called mandate.
But, I think we have a chance to do a whole lot more:
MAKE THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE KNOWN. The Supreme Court stole that
opportunity from us in 2000.

All of the efforts underway to make this goal happen take time, energy, and most of all money. So, please ask yourself what it would be worth to you to restore some semblance of democracy, decency and fairness to our national government, and save our country from further disgrace, ruin, and war, including cultural wars issues that do nothing but divide us, so we can be more easily conquered.
Don't like abortion? Don't have one. Don't want gays to
get married? Don't marry a gay person. It's all so simple.

I am so sick of hearing religion used an as excuse for bigotry, hatred, and the denial of the rights of full citizenship and personhood. Remember: religion was used against black people...to justify slavery, jim crow, and segregation, all manner of evil in this country. On the other side of the equation, religion was also a huge galvanizing force in the civil rights movement.
The only VALUE worth having is one that YOU LIVE, not one that you bestow upon yourself because you are a follower of one religion or another.

Let me tell you something: GOD is just fine with me. I am by far a
more MORAL person than that pea-brained moron squatting in the white
house. And when I marry the woman I love...GOD will still be just fine
with me, and I will still be more moral than all the people who would
deny me the same rights of citizenship that all who presume their
morality is superior to mine take for granted.

I never gave a damn about the gay marriage issue until it was used by
the republicans in this election...YES, THEY STARTED THIS SHIT. YES,
IT WORKED AS PLANNED. YES, THEY USED IT TO APPEAL TO homophobes, just
as they used Willie Horton and "welfare queens" to appeal to racists.
I never gave a damn about gay marriage...until I met someone I dream of making that kind of commitment to; someone who I want to cherish, care for, and to reap all the benefits of my life on this planet.
She just happens to be a woman, like myself. Who is anyone to decide that our love isn't as worthy as anyone else's?

I say it's time our country live up to it stated principles...I say
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Our forefathers and ancestors did not work and die
for our country to be taken over by a vicious group of folks who rule
by hate, fear, intimidation, and who have succeded in turning most of
the world against us, and pitting American against American. We can no longer sit back and wait for someone else to do the work...our nation, and the world needs us to stand up and say:
NOT IN MY NAME: NO MORE STOLEN ELECTIONS! NO MORE BULLSHIT WEDGE
ISSUES! NOT MORE PITTING US AGAINST EACH OTHER! NO MORE HATRED AND
FEAR! NO MORE...

The great African-American poet, Langston Hughes wrote: "America was
never America to me," back when lynching was still a common practice in this country. It pains me to think that yet another generation of
folks will not recognize themselves as Americans because of the hateful atomosphere some have been working so hard to create, and the ugly divisiveness that will eventually destroy all that IS great about this country.

It really doesn't matter what your political persuasion is,
or what you think democrats should have done, or should be doing now, or what your religious beliefs are. What matters is where we are headed, as a nation, and as a people, and if we are going to allow the further destruction of our most basic values as Americans, per the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness."

We all know these lofty words did not apply to most of the people in
the country when they were written...not the native indians, not the
men who didn't own land, not the women, not the indentured servants,
and not those held as slaves. What we need to ask ourselves now
is...who else do we exclude? Who else gets demonized and scapegoated so that we can claim our moral superiority?

So please, do what you can, even if it's just spreading the word.
And remember: EVIL FLOURISHES WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING.

An American who wants America to finally be America to ALL Americans.