The Christian Right holds perhaps one of the best-kept out-in-the-open secrets and sponsors a relentless movement toward establishing (or re-establishing, in their minds) America (and Canada too, thanks to Mr. Harper and his religious-political allies) a religion-based government with all the hallmarks of an intolerant, fundamentalist, even fascist society, based on their interpretation of the bible and all the re-written history one could imagine. These people are deadly serious and constitute perhaps the single biggest threat to democracy as we know it, because, oddly enough, they lack the most obvious differentiators of other groups that constitute threats of various types to our society. Further, they are keenly aware of the need to operate 'under the radar' and ordinary people have not yet identified them widely as a threat.
Most recently that really wacky fringe organization - Westboro Baptist Church, from Topeka Kansas - has grabbed headlines again with its announced plans to cross the border into Canada and establish pickets at a high-school drama production of a play about a murdered gay guy. Most everyone thinks these folks are overstepping, beyond the pale, out of line - or whatever other ways you'd describe it. But you can bet your ticket to heaven that right-wing Christians are right there with 'em, seeing the Westboro folks as the front line, the strike force, the shock troops, the forefront of the battle line, carrying the banner forward. "Onward Westboro soldiers!" they'd cheer.
The population at large needs to understand the stark differences between nice people who believe in God and attend church regularly, and these frightening fundamentalists who yearn for the return of Jesus and the end of civilization ('Revelations') as we know it - those who look at unbelievers smugly & unsympathetically while waiting patiently to be 'raptured up' to their eternal reward, watching the sinners and the uncoverted die in the horrible torment of the end of the world.
We must always remember the Conservative party leadership (intolerant right-wing Christian fundamentalists, make no mistake) wants all moms to stay at home to raise their kids; thinks home-schooling is a good idea because public schools are hotbeds of socialist thought; that didn't fund the scientists doing stem-cell research - remember that in the stimulus a few weeks ago? The same government whose members have 'an informal discussion group' determining if the time is right to bring up repeal of abortion rights; who think the earth is 6000-odd years old as calculated from bible stories?
This Harper government is determined to implement its agenda to steer Canada to becoming an intolerant right-wing Christian fundamentalist regime - watch for it - and find out more about Dominionism soon.
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