By Quisha King, founder of Action Up America
The last three years for Americans have been brutal.
….
The Left has attempted to silence parents, confuse children about gender, force critical race theory ideology on Americans, support abortion until the moment of birth and beyond, shut down churches, and ridicule our faith at every turn. It’s evident what they are after. They are after every stable, life-giving institution that makes a society successful.
Living in Florida, I have watched Gov. Ron DeSantis stand up, not merely for a political party, but for what is right, even when it went against his political affiliation. I’m proud to live in the free state of Florida where babies have a greater chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because our governor signed the Heartbeat Bill. How can we claim to be a moral people when we exercise constant immorality? We can’t have it both ways. The culture of our society has to have boundaries, law, and order if we wish to maintain a decent society. We have gone from a nation where you would see John 3:16 at football games to coaches being arrested for voluntary prayer on a football field.
….
We the people want our country back. We are tired of promises made and not kept by Republicans, tired of tyranny, and tired of spineless leadership who care more about their special interest groups and not about the people. We want leadership who is not afraid to stand up to the Left, not those who try to appease the moronic and downright evil dictatorial Democrats. We want an America that our children can grow up in and have a shot at a decent life. We reject an American where the government locks you in your home and tells you you cannot work unless they deem you essential. It’s been three years and it’s still hard to fathom that the American government said it was a crime to provide for your family.
Bruce Gerencser, 66, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 45 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
Connect with me on social media:
Your comments are welcome and appreciated. All first-time comments are moderated. Please read the commenting rules before commenting.
You can email Bruce via the Contact Form.
Has to be something in the Florida water.
I’m told regions of Florida have occasional algae bloom outbreaks in the water, due to the climate. That might explain it.
Or, maybe, gator bites. 😉
As we say, she has her head planted firmly in her backside. Another useful idiot for a Republican governor who can’t run his state.
Dear Quisha
Here are a few suggestions that will give you the freedom you want
Let women be the ultimate arbiter of their own health, including issues of reproduction.
Accept that there’s rampant racism still embedded in American culture and work to reduce it.
Accept that some people (actually everyone!) are born different and be tolerant of them.
Teach children that these differences exist.
Save your praying for your church and your personal spaces and don’t assume that everyone around wants to join you.
Do this then relax and calm down.
Quisha, most of what you said is incorrect. Women aren’t having abortions up to the moment of birth – that literally isn’t something that happens in the medical community. Children aren’t being confused about gender – there are some people whose bodies don’t match the construct of gender they feel, and that’s a personal thing. Critical race theory isn’t taught in K-12 schools. Shutting down churches was a public health issue – theaters, sports, gyms, and a variety of other places were closed too. I will personally admit to making fun of religion – I do that in my personal life. But where do you see massive ridicule of religion? Nowhere.
Quisha, what you’ve said has as much verisimilitude—and pure-and-simple factual accuracy—as George Santos’ resume.
Then again, I guess you’re savvy enough to know that the only way to make a case for whatever right-wing Fundamentalists and Evangelicals want is to get people riled up about non-issues like the ones OC has pointed out.
She has obviously been brainwashed by the far right crazies who arranged for the storming of Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. The odd thing is that such people only make up about 30 percent of the American population—–and the leaders/masterminds are far fewer than that. Yet, they insist on becoming the tail that wags the rest of the American dog. Deny them any such opportunity, marginalize them to the far fringes of American society, and speak out against them in any and every platform you can find. Minority rule is not a good thing. Sadaam Hussein’s government in Iraq was a minority government. It sucked the big one, and the voices of murdered people cry out from that time and place in Middle East history. Never let this kind of nonsense have an opportunity to rule in the United States. We never have cottoned to anythin’ like that around Hy-y-y-yaw!!!
The discouraging thing about this brand of “argument” isn’t (only) that it is abjectly disingenuous and easily verifiably false, but that this woman would get in line to accept a Dixie cup full of Kool-Aid from Jim Jones himself, and remain completely clueless as to what is being done to her, certain that her justly deserved reward would be forthcoming.
Hitchens’ epistemological razor applies: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” But this only impedes the thinking side of the debate. The other side(s) have no use for evidence.
When your premises are false, your conclusions fail before they are even stated. Unfortunately, this does not dissuade some folks from not only making fools of themselves, but of being led to an imagined oasis where the water has been poisoned by others whose own machinations require that people wittingly blind themselves and take up the flag. They don’t realize that they are merely headcounts, cannon fodder in battles between the power brokers and the moneychangers. So many people salivate over the opportunity to be a field-promoted lieutenant in the New Reich.
And, sad to say, many of them vote, even – most dangerously — in democracies.
I think it’s emotional myopia, Steven. Authoritarian religions promote an “us versus them” mentality, and the “versus them” part gets amplified when quality of life is declining. Formal training in logic is relatively uncommon, and people looking for comfort and safety will jump at anything that seems logical and that promises to save them from the Big Bad Whatever.
What is it with Florida? I swear they are locked in a contest with themselves to see who can be the biggest idiot.