Unsettled Christianity

You know, I admire anyone with political courage these days, especially when they are in the foxhole about to be overrun with Republicans, but it got me to thinking.

Regardless of how you feel about it, hear me out.

I don’t think we’ll move on as a society, or a country, until love is no longer an issue to be used by politicians for appeal and gain. Can I get a #holla?

The fact is, is that both parties have used marriage, family, love, and children for their own political game. Our personal lives are nothing more than serfs on their campaign fiefdoms. If you think that even Republicans really care about ‘traditional family values’ then you have lost your mind. Or Democrats for the working poor. This is not to say that groups who align themselves with these parties do not – so don’t get me wrong – but the Party bosses only pay attention to these groups around campaign season.

Now, I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.

Study, for a while, propaganda. God has been used since time began to start wars, crown kings, and murder. The South was under the suspicion that the slave intended to rape white women and break apart families (ironically, it is was the slave owner who actually did those things to the slaves). We use what people hold dear to them the most to rally the troops, so to speak.

I hope that the President is sincere – and no, I don’t think Mitt is in his beliefs (why? because he opposes same-sex marriages and yet supports gay couples adopting children) – but I equally hope that love, marriage, and God will at some point in the near future stopped being used as a campaign poster and fodder for pandering.

Go, love. Go, vote. But, don’t go vote for someone who uses your love (or your God) for their political gain.