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When a Sex Cult Goes National–Part 1

May 27, 2011

Sexual politics, including gender discrimination, marriage laws, and reproductive rights, are the most personal politics of all. When political parties become sexually fixated and controlling, the political is not only personal. The result is a cult that allows no dissent.

The American two-party system was an institution of genius born out of the U.S. Constitutional debate that pitted states’ rights against those of a strong federal system. The genius? Two tools of which one was always better. Agrarian policy? Probably states’ rights. War? That’s when the Democrats have rolled out the big guns of a nation united for one purpose. The Americans paid a heavy price for the dynamic tension between the two sides with one of the most destructive civil wars of all time. But out of that same dynamic tension was generated two political parties the like of which the world had never seen: political affiliation based on which tool better suited the job (big government or small government) rather than pure ideology (liberal vs. conservative). Liberals and conservatives were in both parties and would occasionally cross party lines to serve some higher good. It was contentious, colorful and even fun but then one day the serpent slithered into paradise.

He was a smiling, genial, jelly-bean lover with a infectious charm who beguiled many with his folksy manner before offering a deal with the devil: Wanna win elections?

According to Wikipedia,

In 1980 the pro-life movement gained control of the Republican Party’s platform committee, adding pro-life planks to the Republican position, and calling for a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, banning abortion. Two pro-life U.S. Presidents – Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush – were elected, although the majority of Reagan voters were pro-choice.

How did politics become the leader of religion? Here’s how:

Before 1980, the Southern Baptist Convention officially advocated for loosening of abortion restrictions. During the 1971 and 1974 Southern Baptist Conventions, Southern Baptists were called upon “to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.” W. Barry Garrett wrote in the Baptist Press, “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the [Roe v. Wade] Supreme Court Decision.”

But following the pro-life plank?

By 1980, conservative Protestant leaders became vocal in their opposition to legalized abortion, and by the early 1990s Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition of America became a significant pro-life organization. In 2005, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said that making abortion illegal is more important than any other issue.

God or Caesar? After the 80′s there was no difference. The Republican Party became a cult whose true believers brooked no dissent and labeled heretics as RINOs or “Republicans in name only” (pictured in caucus at left). Only RINOs, not real Republicans, would be for individual choice in reproductive rights, recognition of all adults’ right to marry (including gay Americans), or equal rights for all to adopt, to participate in the military and to tell the truth about who they are sexually. Now the party of small government became the party wanting to hall monitor your bedroom. Didn’t we lose something valuable when “Republican” came to mean “Conservative?”