Sunday, November 07, 2004
The role of the moral values on the election is getting a lot of attention.
However, the voters are not referring to values like honesty, goodness, compassion or generosity. These are values are social values shared by religious and non-religious voters.
The truth is that the moral values the voters have in mind are not the real ones. Those "moral values" are just a smoke curtain, behind which the prejudice of religious intolerance is hidden. The intransigence in not accepting that people of the same sex can have a legally recognized relationship or the inflexibility in accepting that under certain conditions a pregnancy can be ended, are not defending moral values. They defend religious values, which shall be imposed to those that do not share that religion.
(The fact that there are catholic homosexuals and evangelists that had an abortion is an internal problem to those religions and should be solved within the cult – I do not discuss that as I wish they would not discuss my own life options.)
