By RainbowChaser
Date: 2002 Sep 29
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A Toast to Extreme Conservatives

A toast to conservatives
This is the exact reason why I keep myself away from them
It's not because I'm closed minded
It's because my openness scares them away from me

I believe in God
I resent the statement that my liberalism isolates God
How is it wrong to sympathize with people for being people
people come in all shapes, sizes, nationalities, and sexual orientations

Who am I to judge you?
God created us to enhance human kindness
not to completely bash those who don't share our beliefs
What ever happened to judge not lest ye be judged

Don't tell me that I'm awesome, wonderful and cool if you don't mean it
Forget smiling at me, and telling me i'm beautiful and that I'm different
and then in the same breath condemning me as a sinner
Who are you and where do you get off?

I am awesome, i am wonderful, and i am DEFINITELY a christian
another issue: don't condemn the rights of desperate women who sometimes have to undertake desperate measures
to condemn abortion as a way of the unholy
is entirely unfair

what ever happened to walking a mile in someone's shoes before judging them?
don't tell me what to think, what to feel, what to believe
You can in no way say that you are a better christian than me
you were wrong, admit it, but don't punish me for saving you from yourself

Don't explain to me that true Christians are so few and so far between that you must light a path for me
instead pray for someone, not condemn them
You are so confused and so muffled, that maybe your voice will be blocked by your ignorance
You aren't the voice of God, so don't proclaim to be

This is a toast to all the conservatives who make light of my beliefs and chastise me for not agreeing with them
congratulations on alienating those who you need to join your cause
I would gladly sit elbow to elbow with you and discuss my views openly
and openly listen to your views

Instead you wish to separate yourself from me
which shows not only your ignorance, but your total lack of regard for the human situation
Smile-because you think that you know so much more than I do
but instead, I smile because I realize that people don't take what you say seriously

What kind of message do you give when you blow up abortion clinics?
when you 'bomb the hell' out of an enemy, yet talk about kindness to fellow man
when you 'fry the criminal' to prove that innocent people have been harmed
or when you 'banish homosexuals' to prove that sex is holy, and sacred

Let me ask you:  Have you seen the face of a child who isn't wanted?
Have you tasted the hunger of a child who can't be cared for
or whose parents don't love each other so they take it out on this child
or have you witnessed the life of a child who is the product of rape or incest?

Have you seen the scared faces of the enemy's children?
Have you wondered what it would be like to have no food, no hope, no money?
the terror that this poor child must feel towards americans
yet we preach how much we love our country, what about other people?

have you seen the destruction that the death penalty gives
how it affects the victims families even after the killer is dead
have you seen the killers family filled with sadness for the loss
an eye for an eye..what happens when we lose both of ours?

aren't homosexuals not people?
who would choose the life of homosexuality..to be condemned by their fellow man?
do you know what its like to be homosexual?
i don't think you do, but you seem to know so much

what reward is offered to you for hurting the feelings of your fellow human
what do you hope to gain
by only allowing those who agree with you directly access to your heart and mind
this is a toast to all the conservatives for the void that will be empty for the great mind of another will be absent from their life experience