Abolish Intolerance!

We live in a land where we may no longer wear religious symbols or garb in public without mocking, contemptuous, or even frightening encounters. Today, merely carrying a holy book is considered sufficient cause to be detained and interogated by authorities empowered by undisclosed federal regulations.

Our once peaceful and neighborly society has become openly hostile to the very religions and sciences which were the foundation of civilization, and our government has turned sexual preference and fear mongering into their soul domain, forgoing their essential and proper duties.

These belligerent and truculent attacks upon our civil liberties and peaceful land are being waged upon us by a small but growing number of zealous bigots who, in their desperate search for a scape goat for their own failings have labeled freedom the enemy – an enemy to be destroyed completely.

The illusion of mere tolerance has been washed from our society by the open and fervent rantings of television ministries and politicians who, like blackguardsmen of an earlier day, cry for the eradication of imagined heretics and infidels rather than face the difficult but necessary work of our country.

    

We must Abolish this Intolerance!

Any people who have been discriminated against or attacked in any way because of their sexual preference, race, religion, national origin, age, gender, or disability have every right to be angry at a society which permits, and in some forums encourages, this bigoted, sometimes violent, and outrageous behavior.

And if we stand unmoved by injustices perpetrated against others then we become the unwitting stooges of a government that is intentionally sabotaging the very liberties upon which our great country is founded.

We will respond, right here and right now. We will not stand idly by and watch the continued desecration of the freedoms so painfully fought for and won for us and perserved for us by our forebearers, nor will we turn our eyes from the vision of a land of prosperity, equality and tolerance for all peoples.

A great, great land has lain too long under the heel of leaders of small character and weak souls; those who fear the light of day and who seek to hide their terrible acts behind the masks of foreign perpetrators will hold us down no longer.

Look for Volume 6 - Issue 1 of Abolish Intolerance in February, 2007