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If conservatives choose to portray themselves as the party of "values", then those values must include much more than being against gay marriage, and abortion. Any country which claims to have a shred of morality, or values, is obligated to care for the poor, children, and the elderly. Cutting taxes for the wealthy, and paying for those cuts by saddling our children and grandchildren with the cost, is immoral. Cutting taxes for the wealthy, and for profitable companies, like the oil companies, is immoral.
Can any self-respecting self-proclaimed Christian claim to be a follower of Christ, if they refuse to follow his commandments to care for the poor, the sick, and the needy? Rather than building mega-churches, and having their reverends live in mansions, why don't these oh, so moral hypocrites collect money for those who are homeless, or without medical care, or hungry?
If Jesus came back today, and walked among the homeless, while the rich looked the other way, which group would get to see him? Would it be the ones he charged us with helping, or the ones who sped by in luxury cars, bedecked with diamonds, on their way to a social event, and blind to the poverty of others? This need not be phrased as a strictly Christian issue, because all religions, so far as I know, have commandments to be charitable.
The same Bible thumpers who can cite chapter and verse against homosexuality, or the passages they believe condemn it, yet utter not a peep of the Beatitudes. They can screech against adultery, and not address hunger, or homelessness. They are hypocrites, and need to recede to a distant corner in American politics. They are strictly against anything even remotely connected to sex, but blind to the issues that cause despair in so many. I hope our new Democratic wins an change the direction this country has been going in since St. Ronnie blinded the masses, an made them accept greed as a just way of life. Nobody in America today should be without a home, food, and medical care. Nobody.
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