From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
Watch this entire video. I’m a leftist. I don’t hate religious people, hard work, Mom or apple pie. I feel like I just got personally reamed out by this elected official, Senator Rick Scott. This man told me I had no values. He told me I don’t care about marriage or the deeply-held values of faith communities, that I disrespect the troops and law enforcement, that I am not American in the sense that he understands America from the Pledge of Allegiance and so on.
The pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist minister (because socialists can also be believers–not that there’s anything wrong with not being one) and did not include the words “under God” originally. Just as we have civilian leadership over the military–it’s the decision of the people through their elected representatives whether a nation should go to war and those elected representatives determine our treaties. Some protestors have a radical view regarding the future of law enforcement, but no one is saying that there will be no laws, nor that no mechanism of enforcement should exist.
And this man needs to back off entirely about the concept of family and the sanctity of marriage. Is he saying couples can not divorce? (Because for what it’s worth, I’ve been divorced and it worked out great for both me and my ex.) (I doubt that’s what he’s referring to, though.) I think he might be implying that some marriages are not created equal to others because of the genders of the partners involved. But I am a big fan of marriage. I think marriage is a great institution, and I love that LGBT people can enter into marriages and create warm, loving families. If he is against those bonds, maybe the marriage-hater is him, ok? Maybe he’s disrespecting those families.
And I don’t have a problem with people of faith–I just don’t think they need to tell me I have to believe as they do, which is no more than any person of any religion would say to a person of a different religion.