You’d think a conservative would know better
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley. Governor to most of the people, at least.
“Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother,”
There are many people in America today who profess to be conservatives. I don’t understand them.
Genuine conservative principles favor keeping the government out of people’s lives. Allowing the greatest amount of personal freedoms consistent with safety and security. Minding your own business and letting other people mind theirs.
Today’s conservatives, though, seem to hold to the precept that everyone is free to live their life, as long as it conforms to their narrow principles. Freedom of religion, as long as that religion is fundamentalist Christianity. Freedom of association, as long as homosexuality stays in the closet where it belongs. Freedom of choice, as long as they get to do the choosing.
So today, Alabama has a new governor. Or at least some of the people do–those who share Governor Robert Bentley’s bible-thumping Christianity. The rest of the state? Jews, Muslims, Ba’hai, Hindu, atheist? Not his brothers and sisters, that’s for sure.
I’d be ashamed to be part of any “conservatism” that includes Robert Bentley, and I can’t understand why his supporters aren’t.
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