Moonstruck in Jersey's Blog

In the About page on my blog I wrote that even though I really like talking all things beauty, every once in a while I would take a turn.  I am taking a little turn here because I cannot stop thinking about this so, I might as well take the opportunity to vent.

I keep hearing and reading that the GOP considers itself an inclusive party, but their platform, that has been under the radar for years, is now front and center.  (http://nyti.ms/NvNlSx0)  So much of this platform, which Mr Romney and Mr Ryan support, speaks to the extreme religious right and no matter how many times Ann Romney says the word “love”, the GOP’s mindset is not about love and is most certainly not inclusive.

I have stated before that I respect everyone’s right to believe what they choose.  My feeling is that phrases from the Bible are taken out of context to support whatever issue the extreme right is holding up at that time.  The GOP embraces this practice and plans to base laws for the Country on these beliefs.  These religion based proposals effect so many people and the practice of ignoring the rights of everyone else to satisfy a specific religion, which not every American believes in, has got to stop.  Nowhere in the Constitution does it say our laws are to be made based on a particular religion’s beliefs

I cannot believe that in 2012 we are still talking about abortion rights, access to birth control and equal pay.  The GOP promises to repeal Roe vs Wade and ban abortion for ANY reason ( although Romney says he would make an exception for rape and the life of the mother ).  They promise to cut federal programs that allow women access to birth control.  They also promise to repeal Affordable Health Care Act (a whole other issue for me) for many reasons, but one of them is because insurance companies must pay for birth control for women.  On top of that, if AHCA is repealed, the cost of healthcare will rise for women ( right back to where it was or higher ).

What gives the GOP the right to tell anyone what they can do with their body? Where do they get the right to decided what constitutes the starting point of life?  You are talking about intelligent women!  They don’t need to be told what to do or how to do it.  It is their life. They know these decisions will effect them everyday for the rest of their lives.  No one is forcing a woman to make one choice over the other.  That is what pro-choice is all about.

Clearly, the  extreme right does not have any legal right to demand these things yet, but they have money and numbers enough to make any GOP candidate nervous about achieving their goal without the right’s support.  Mr Romney has certainly gone from moderate conservative all the way to the right because he knows what the option is – no option.

The GOP says that there is no “war on women”, I beg to differ. Just a few weapons – repeal AHCA, ban abortion, for any reason, if possible, and we know that Paul Ryan voted against Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Just a taste of what is happening.

I do not understand why women support this Party.  We are slowly being led back to Donna Reed’s kitchen, the “barefoot and pregnant” mentality.  What’s next, repealing the right for women to vote?

We are on the verge of becoming an America that no one will recognize and where many groups of American citizens are ignored.  Huge money and religion are close to creating a closed society, something we have always fought against.

Thomas Jefferson on Separation of Church and State

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes (Letter to von Humboldt, 1813).

Peace