Three of the four candidates for the Republican slot on the presidential election ballot in November are aiming their strongest appeals to American Christians... assuming, I presume, that the ideas and practices they endorse are consistent with the ideas and practices which define Christianity and are most consistent with the Christian Gospel. Perhaps it’s time for a review.
The Gospel according to the Republican Party compels righteous Christians to try to persuade the Supreme Court to undo the Affordable Care Act... a program with a goal of making sure 31 million people who don’t have health care can get it. This redefinition of moral righteousness requires deliberate sabotage of programs that help the poor. Bringing more suffering on the already suffering poor indicates an obvious disconnect with the Gospel, which I’ve always understood places high priority, even a requirement, to care for the poor. Christians are asked to believe in the moral righteousness of candidates who say that contraception and abortion under any circumstances should not be allowed. For good measure they attempt to prove their moral righteousness by saying they will never approve of extending to homosexuals the same civil rights that are guaranteed to heterosexuals.
The House Budget Committee Chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan has proposed a budget for the nation which he calls “Path to Prosperity." The first priority of the Chairman’s budget is a dramatic increase in defense spending, and the second priority is preserving massive tax cuts for the wealthy, both of which can be accomplished by cutting away the social safety net which makes it possible for the poor who use medicaid to get medicine and medical treatment for their families and by drastically cutting food stamp programs.
The Republican Party has supported legislation to allow corporations with large sums of money to play a much bigger role in the political system than was previously allowed. Rather than have Congress set the terms of debate on issues critical to the welfare of the American people, lobbyists are employed by corporations to decide which issues should be addressed and how elected officials should go about addressing them. The activities of corporations are encouraged and protected by stripping away regulations even if it means ignoring warnings from the scientific community that an environmental crisis indicated by climate change is looming and is almost certain to spin out of control.
The presidential candidates and Republican politicians all across the country are running on a promise to address the moral crisis in America. What they don’t acknowledge is that the gay community, healthcare advocates, women who demand the right to decide what their health-care needs are, environmentalists, the poor, and hard-working middle class citizens are not the problem.
3 comments:
I love it when you "review."
If all the poor, all the women at risk, all those who could lose any amount of medical insurance they need, all those with disabled children, etc., and etc., would vote, we could manage these republicans and their desire to enrich those who want more than they could use, at the risk of taking our country all the way downhill.Where do these wretched people get the audacity.
Congress needs you, Jerral Miles!
Your comments are spot-on and you're reasonable, unlike too many in the strange collection we have in Congress.
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