The country’s gone mad.
They’re repealing Roe v. Wade, taking away women’s rights, this a disaster. The church is gaining power, and when it rules the state we are lost.
Christianized governors across the country are doling out cruel, religious laws. We could soon become like Iran and Iraq, with Christianity as the new Islam.
Maybe the problem was triggered by the antics of Donald Trump.
We saw a president impeached twice, inciting a riot at the U.S. capitol and trying to steal an election. It makes wackiness the norm, and muddles common sense, throwing a monkey wrench into the system.
And now women’s rights are being wrenched away from them.
By erasing Roe v. Wade, right-wing Christians are bypassing a law that has kept our country secure for 250 years, the separation of church and state.
The law is simple and wise.
The relationship of a government to a person must be a civic (state) one, not a religious (church) one. They must remain separate.The government cannot control what people do with their body or mind. It only deals with the outer actions, not inner beliefs.
The state provides personal safety, police and fire protection, roads and voting rights, and all the rest of our public needs.
In the Roe v. Wade argument about personal rights etc., I go with the Conservatives’ viewpoint that only U.S. citizens with a birth certificate can have rights. A fetus might be a partial human being but is not a citizen with a birth certificate, so has no legal rights. Pretty sure a fetus can’t get a birth certificate.
Roe v. Wade is a law protecting female citizens, not what they carry inside them, that is their business. Only a person decides what can be done with his or her hands and feet, heart or fetal cells.
Everything from head to toe belongs to each person, simple as that.
Religious zealots want to deny access to a safe procedure that has protected women for 50 years.
They are doing it in the name of Christianity, believing Jesus, their spiritual leader, is behind them. But he is not. Jesus knew the dangers of letting religion influence the government. Religious Pharisees influencing the Roman government took his life.
In the Bible, he warned us in Mark 12:38-40 to, “Beware the teachers of religion, their punishment will be great.”
We pray that religious people keep their hurtful views to themselves and give up this assault on women.
It would bring much-needed peace to our country.
Dennis Gregory writes a bi-monthly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at makewavess@yahoo.com