Lots of people, mostly relatives, have asked me who I’m going to be voting for in the next presidential election. It’s a great question: it’s something that you need to think long and hard about. I know I and many other Americans don’t want another Bush in office. I have yet to find a candidate that really strikes me as presidential material. I have a few candidates in mind that I WON’T vote for, however, which seems to be funny. I guess in the end it will be a process of elimination.
Mike Huckabee
I read a few things that alerted Huckabee to my attention. I thought that they might very well be the ever-present bashing that comes to the surface during elections. I figured that what I had read was probably being blown out of proportion, or was only half the truth. What I found was disturbing.
Aside from the fact that it irks me that a preacher is running for president (I will concede that he has every right to run as anybody else), but it seems to me that he believes that he deserves to be president because he was a preacher. He has also compared homosexuality to completely different ludicrous acts when he said, “It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia” (Source). Come on, I would like to know his reasoning behind comparing homosexuality - which is merely two people of the same sex being attracted to each other - with pedophilia (an adult taking advantage of a child), sadomasochism (interaction, esp. sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.), and necophilia (the sexual attraction to corpses). I’m tired of arguing the point that it’s ridiculous to ban something like homosexuality because your bible says so, but I will argue that the government has no place telling anybody that they can’t get married. They just simply do not have the right to do that, regardless of whether they agree with it because of their religion or not. Once upon a time the government took it upon themselves to ban interracial marriages. They did not have the right to ban people from getting a consenting marriage then and they don’t now. I’ve also heard the point that the government has no right to regulate marriages, period, as marriage in itself is a religious practice and as long as some church somewhere will marry the consenting couple then I see no problem with it. Period.
Now that I’ve got off the track by fuming about anti-homosexuality in the government, I’d like to draw attention to yet another idiot who cannot fathom that non-religious people are capable of having morals. I’ll let you Google for an article, because I know there are many, where Huckabee has condemned secularism as well as atheism. A man who would condemn a group of people simply because of some incredibly mal-informed and blatantly stupid stereotypes is someone I would never vote for.
In addition, I also decided a long time ago that I was never going to vote for Brownback, but he dropped out - which was absolutely fantastic. He needs to go back to his farm where he came from and never rear his head in politics again. (It’s unfortunate that I will probably hear about him even still because of the fact that he hails from Kansas.)
We’ll see who else gets added to this list.
I know that the message has already been shouted and screamed and demanded about, but it’s very important for all eligible voters to do their research and vote. What the president does has an effect on every US citizen through the economy, taxes, wars, and basic civil liberties that you might now take for granted. I know I’ll be voting in this election.
