If you're among the "religious right", you should be ashamed, because you haven't yet abandoned your antiquated "churchy" ideas, and because you haven't yet adopted the tenets of the "un-religious left". You must change, and get-with the new dogma -- from the Council of Clinton. As Southerners, you and I must re-mold ourselves, so that we can become more like our enlightened leaders in Washington D.C.

Just think, maybe you and I can evolve.... and begin to think and act more like Donna Shalala, Joycelyn Elders. Robert Reich, Janet Reno -- and Hillary.

Now suppose you want to resign your affiliation with the "religious right" -- here's what you've got to do: First, you must abandon your dilapidated system of values and virtues. You'll have to forsake all that silly superstitious stuff about God and prayer and the Bible. Surely, then, you will begin to realize that your real creator was Father Big-Bang.... and that Mother Nature is responsible for all the miracles and mysteries of the Universe. When you accept Big-Bang as your creator, you will then awaken to recognize "the truth" -- that human life and love and "values" do not actually exist -- and that we humans are only chemical aggregations of atoms and electrons.... the result of unexplained, unplanned, random, evolutional chaos.

Furthermore, if you no longer want to be categorized with the "religious right", you must surrender your prejudiced opinions about "diversity". You must alter your antique attitudes toward single-sex marriages, and "gay" families. You must embrace the idea of "gays" in the military. You must realize that pregnancy for never-wed teenage mothers is now an acceptable "alternative" -- and that abortion-on-demand is an entitlement.

Get with it! Devote your misguided attention to the "ozone layer", and to global warming -- and to concern about the population of the spotted owl, the snail darter, and the sturgeon.

Now, here are my personal feelings: The degrading attacks on the "religious right" are actually attacks on "religion" (faith and trust in God). An attack on "religion" is really an attack on the very roots and foundation of the United States. And, most important -- to belittle religion is to belittle and ridicule God.... and that cannot possibly be effective.

We humans, individually and collectively, should devoutly hope and pray that we are -- and will be -- included among the "religious right".... in the opinion of God. Whether our human cohorts consider you and me to be right or wrong, conservative or liberal.... does not really matter.

It is better to be "spiritually right", than to be "politically correct". Better to be among the "religious right", than to be among the "un-religious wrong". Better to be included with the "religious right", than to be grouped with the "un-religious" -- whether "left" or "right".

Don't all of us docile-and-dumb, "Southern", church-going conservative "fanatics" hope that we are "religiously" right.... with God! Remember this: religious truth does not change. Faith and honor and spiritual values will always be the same. And, God is the same.... yesterday, today, and forever!

6/29/07