Seeing shit like this makes me puke inside my mouth. And this is America at the turn of the millenium. Congratulations. I'm biding my time, because I still know that a theocracy will eat itself. Our government seems to be undergoing a crisis of faith, in that it's embracing theological doctrine as the basis for law as opposed to the will of the people. It's easy to say that one political party's ideas are bad, it's tough to survive in the political arena when you say that a church's ideas are bad. You can't call them out!

And I don't think it's a culture war. Or if it is, California is very very well insulated from it. I don't think people are walking around going, "Man, it's a good thing People Of Faith are finally getting their way around here. It's about time!" That people are fed up with the religious zealotry of others around the world is understandable. That people are forgetting that the central mantra of all the major religions (and John Lennon: All you need is love) is deplorable. That people are unaware of the importance of this juncture in American history is regrettable, but that never stopped history from happening anyway.

Let me pause this rant by saying that there's good conservative (ie Dale, Greg) and good right-leaning (little "l" libertarians like Grant and Chris) and I gotta ask you all: Did you do this? You did this didn't you? You did this while I was out clubbing, didn't you? Dammit, I knew I should have been more vigilant.

Government is to function as a public good, and religion, apart from love, should one of the most private. I don't share my relationship with God with anyone, not out of choice or necessity or vanity; but rather through impossibility! It's almost like the legislation is being put in place to reaffirm what should be a very personal belief.

Intolerance, too, is a private concern. It is a particular human characteristic that is ugly and over time will subside once ignorance and fear are relegated to the back alleys of the idiots. But when public entities engage in intolerance, it creates a pseudo-being that, while purporting to serve the will of the people, only serves its hate.

I forsee a catastrophe in Texas. Good intentions won't stop people from one day realizing the whole scope of their ways. Ugh, the disgust in me is making me really late for work. A soldier stopping an insurgent can't ask the insurgent where that bomb was going to go. Defending the country is kind of silly when the country dudn't take to yer kind.