by Shannon Lisa

Created on: December 15, 2007

Think about it from your own point of view. How would you feel if someone were voting on something that would in some way oppress you or your faith or your way of life or anything you love or hold dear? How would you feel if someone else had the ability to vote to control your life like that, leaving you powerless? People shouldn't let their faith, or religion, get in the way of the thought process behind voting.

Take the fact that gay marriage still isn't legal in America...gay people still don't have the right to marry the same way straight people do, and why? Because religious jerks didn't want them to. Because people who believe the Bible is the only right thing in the world decided they were going to overpower and demean others choice to love and be loved.

So many people think theirs is the right faith, so they push it upon others, cram it down the throats of everyone until they are absolutely fed up with dealing with it.

There is supposed to be a separation between church and state...and for a very good reason.

Your religious views are not supposed to get in the way of your political views. You aren't supposed to vote for a person because of their faith, you aren't supposed to vote for a bill, or act, or proposition, or anything because of your religious or spiritual beliefs. That is just forcing your beliefs on others that may not agree with you.

This is the home of the free, we are supposed to all have equal rights...equal rights under the constitution that states that every man is created equal. Women have rights protected under the constitution...they had to work very hard to get the word 'men' to become an umbrella term for 'human'...they fought for their rights. Now their are other men and women out there that are fighting for that same right, and faith is getting in the way.

First of all, there are some things that shouldn't be up to a vote and whether or not anyone can get married is one of those things. It shouldn't be up to be whether or not you or your friends can get married. But since it is, people shouldn't let their faith or religion get in the way of making the right choice. There are men fighting to be considered 'men' under the constitution...all men are created equal...that doesn't mean anything anymore because of religion.

Children are no longer required to say the words 'one nation under God' when reciting the Pledge..they aren't even required to say the Pledge anymore. With all the political correctness this country is trying to push upon

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