My Home State: One Step Closer to Hitler's Dream
5/16/2005
I can look up at the sky and tell if it's an Oklahoma sky, an Oklahoma moon. That's how long I've lived here.
Oklahoma is a beautiful State. Not the prettiest, but probably the most consistently pleasing. We have nice countryside, friendly people (generally), good weather (except for the tornados and the pollen count), and enough to do to keep most of us from going insane. I was born and pretty much raised here, and I'm proud of the land, the heritage, and the relative road-friendliness of the folks. But that's changing, inevitably.
Oklahoma has an overwhelming rural community, which tend to side with the 'morals' of the Republican party - and therefore with the right-wing ultraconservatives I consider to be no better than Nazis - secretly taking over what once might have been considered a respectable Party, redefining corruption and breeding a slow, degenerating sickness of anti-intellectualism in order to turn the clock back.
I could just assume to be talking about traditional Republicans. Except I know they aren't all like that.
Call me paranoid, but someone needs to explain why it is important to 'hide' gay-themed books in the Public Library system. Explain to me why the leaders of a 'free' society want to promote an Anti-gay policy for libraries? And use my tax money to do it? Do these people deserve my State Tax? Or the Federal funds that are filtered from my Federal Tax? I don't think so.
UPDATE: They've done it. Rep. Sally Kern, Hitler would be so very proud of you and your efforts. So would David Duke. You should pat yourself on the back, along with the constituents who supported your efforts.
At this point, deep in a dreaded fear of the sort of fascist bullshit that these people are shoving down our throats, I am wondering what they will tackle next..... How about non-Christian books? Atheist books? Books on evolution, science that does not acknowledge God as creator? Works written by homosexuals (after all, sexual orientation contributes to the whole of a person, not merely to what they do with their clothes off). Are we going to start hanging witches again? Woo hoo! That'll just be darn'-tootin' fun.
Something is very wrong here. And it's time to do something about it.
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, May 16, 2005,
2 Comments:
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At 10:05 PM,
Monk-in-Training said...
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I went to the Holocost memorial at the Jewish Federation (71st & Lewis) this weekend. They had a quote, that in part said "whatever you do, dont be a...bystander"
I believe we are called to change our world and leave it better than we found it. Here this in the song of a child here:
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At 10:05 PM,
Monk-in-Training said...
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