Since I'm sick of a more or less one-sided media

Well, a whole lot of fuss has been made about Barack Obama's ex-pastor, whose remarks he has openly condemned. And a lot of fuss is being made about the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.

Well, why not talk about one of John McCain's supporters, Rev. John Hagee? Dude rails like a complete idiot against everything from how much God hates gays to how much God hates Islam. And what it took to get John McCain to actually start distancing himself from this guy? A remark that was anti-Catholic! Never mind that he'd said thinks like, "What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse," and claimed that the whole thing happened because God hates gays long before this presidential campaign even started! The fact that that alone wasn't reason enough to write the dude off as a fundamentalist whack-job is alarming. No one even bats an eye at that? And then we're expected to believe it's totally okay that this sort of person has any sort of political power, and that he can hate Muslims, gays, atheists, and whoever else he wants as long as he doesn't hate Catholics?

And let's talk about another person John McCain has actively courted for support, and whose support he has received: that of his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley. Rod Parsley who has declared "war" on Islam. The same guy who compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis and accused them of attempting to exterminate blacks. Anyone who actually wants this sort of person to have any sort of political power is nothing short of an idiot. If anyone's supporters are reason enough not to vote for them, it's John McCain. A vote for McCain is a vote for another four years of Christian Zionism in the white house.

I'm all for your right to believe whatever the hell you want, no matter how stupid it is. You can believe in an established religion, believe in no religion, or you can believe that God is a squirrel. I don't care. What I do care about is hate and bigotry. These things have no place in mainstream society, and the way our government judges people should have nothing whatsoever with the way your church judges people. The first amendment of the constitution frees us from being subject to religious law. Once you start writing your hate into it, and once you start making certain groups of people "less equal" in the eyes of the state, you're on a slippery slope toward totalitarianism and destroying the principles on which this country is founded.

So just remember, every time someone among the so-called "liberal media" asks Barack Obama patronizing questions like, "Do you love the American flag?" how little of an issue it is. A lot is at stake in this election, and I don't want to see the people who really do seem to have it in for the things that make America great win it again.