THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D.



The long primary fights within the Republican Party have revealed the mind-set of the Republicans. It turns out that they are against both sex and education, unaware that sex is a very popular activity and that education is necessary for our well-being as a nation and important for individual success. Also, they do not like women, wanting to keep them in a subordinate relationship to men. They are proposing and passing legislation whose sole purpose is to humiliate women considering abortion by state sponsored rape, inserting a foreign object into their vaginas against their wills.



They support Roman Catholic bishops’ attempt to prevent birth control for women when 98% of Roman Catholic women already use contraception. Of course, the bishops have already proven themselves immoral in hiding the depravity of sexual abuse of children within their ranks.



Every now and then, I meet a Republican whose interests are not in establishing a theocracy pleasing to Roman Catholic bishops, but who favor grinding the heads “of the poor in the dust of the earth (Amos 2:7).” It’s called a flat tax which means that a billionaire would pay taxes at the same rate as the poor.



So it turns out that Republicans are against sex, women, education, and 99% of the population and are for a theocracy. What a platform!



If I were a Republican, I would be ashamed of myself.