Romney’s Pledge of Allegiance

Ellen of the 10th has a nice post about “The Speech“, Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America“ address at the George Bush Presidential Library on Decmber 6th. I agree with Ellen. The speech was disturbing.

Romney identifies religious liberty as the topic of his address and then sets out to pledge fealty to the establishmentarians of the Christian right while trying to channel John Kennedy in the hopes of appearing statesman-like.

Romney insists that “Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone”, and further “Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government”. Religious liberty for Romney is not liberty at all. And our Constitution, which explicitly prohibits an established religion is of no consequence to him.

If it weren’t bad enough that Republicans like Romney are trying to establish their religion, the religion they want to establish is just so creepy. Basically it amounts to just toeing the line regarding abortion and homosexuality and institutionalizing Christian observances to remind ourselves what a great godly nation we are. Then they’re justified and can go out and invade sovereign nations in the name of God and Freedom and maim and kill their people. And they can ignore all the inconvenient parts of Jesus’ message and engage in their main project of making the rich richer at expense of the poor.