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No, I will NOT tell you I voted because I am NOT voting this time. I cannot find a single candidate that I CAN in good conscience vote for.
Here in Alabama, the candidates seem to have entirely forgotten that there is an amendment to the US constitution specifically barring a religious test for office. Here every single candidate that I have heard has made a point to tout how they are a "Values Candidate" and one nominee for the Alabama Supreme Court even went so far as to advertise that her faith helps her determine her judgments!!! I can guarantee that if a Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim candidate had said such a thing, the outpouring of criticism would have guaranteed their defeat. (Think of the hysteria over Shari law recently!) So there is plainly a de facto religious test in this state and I cannot vote for any candidate without that vote condoning what they are doing here!
Then there is the candidate for governor who campaigns on this state's sovereignty--which is what we fought an entire Civil War about--yet here he is shouting from the rooftops about how HE believes that state sovereignty takes precedence over the laws passed in Washington, specifically the new health care law.
I feel like I have been disenfranchised by their campaign rhetoric. The sad part is that is probably their intention. So here I sit between a rock and a hard place, unable to cast a ballot because they are ALL breaking the spirit of the constitution, if not the actual law. And frankly, their attitude scares the $hit out of me! I am starting to find myself less quick to tell people I am not a Christian, like somehow that acknowledgment is going to come back to bite me one day. And to think there was a time, years back, when all I worried about was being outed as gay!
Rusty
Ok, seriously, I'll go in a minute
