The Man Behind Proposition 8

[Peter Lemkin]

So, through the miracle of the free-market you can summize the going rate on a ticket to heaven, these days. Some of these types are rich, most are not - but are highly motivated - really fanatical and issues such as gay marriage - even children talking back to their parents [for some] are not trivial issues - but the central issues - along with abortion being illegal, and working toward a 'Christian' America under their kind of religious fascism. I've met 'em and talked to 'em and they are living in another universe to me - we have almost no common ground, except sometimes [not always] on some limited environmental issues. Others feel their god will take care of all things and humans were put here to dominate the earth and use it - even abuse it. They are going to be a feature that has to be dealt with - as their numbers in the USA are growing and under Bush ascendant....as much as we laugh and shake our heads. They are about 15% of the population. I imagine now under the current Obama Administration they might be a little less prominent - but will still be at work on their 'mission' [some to hasten and welcome the end of the world]. There are several good writers on this, but Chris Hedges is one I like. You can find his stuff on the internet or his book American Fascists - The Christian Right and the War on America. [And Hedges is just the person to opine on this, as he went to Harvard Divinity School]. Very good web site on all this here http://www.theocracywatch.org/ These people are beyong the pale, IMO - and dangerous - very dangerous and NOT to be taken as a joke. Hitler and his followers were taken as a joke by many intellectuals of his day and place.