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"Hello?"
"Hi, Mrs. Whimple?"
"Yes...who is this?"
"My name is Eli, I'm living in New York City and I'm calling you today to ask who you think you might be voting for in November."
"Oh, well...I was thinking that Bush was doing such a nice job, I'd just vote for him."
"What exactly is he doing that is a 'nice job?'"
Pause. "Well, not so much a nice job, just that I think he's a nice guy, I guess."
"Let me cut to the chase -- I tend to think that the only reason you can even consider supporting him is that you believe that abortion is wrong, gays shouldn't get married, and you believe that he's 'decisive.' Is that about where you stand?"
"Umm...yes, I suppose so."
"Okay, well let me run something by you, if I may. I was here in New York City when the GOP was having its little soiree. And I had friends who were arrested because they were standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. They spent days -- not hours -- in a motor oil and asbestos filled warehouse picking up god knows what. Because they were standing in the wrong place."
"Where exactly are you going with this?"
"Where I'm going is, let's just say for argument's sake, you were standing in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"Yes? I suppose it could happen."
"It really happens every day -- someone crosses the street and a car happens to be making a weird turn and they get hit."
"That happened to my cousin Maurice."
"I'm terribly sorry to hear that."
"Oh, that's okay. Maurice just broke his hip and he was looking for a good reason to slow down."
"Oh, okay. So, you can imagine being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"Yes, I guess so."
"Well, don't you think that maybe it ought to be the desire of your government to minimize those wrong places and wrong times. And not -- as was the case in New York City this past week -- to maximize the wrong place and wrong time."
"I guess I don't follow, exactly."
"Do you believe in God?"
"Yes, I do. I have a strong faith in God."
"That's good."
"And our president does, too, I'll have you know."
"Yes, I was aware of that. Let me ask you something -- you don't believe that gays should marry, correct?"
"Yes, I think it's an abomination of God's will."
"All right. Well, let me just say for example that God speaks to our president at some point and he says, 'Good going with those gays, George. Now, would you mind taking on that peculiar Protestant problem, for me.'"
"Excuse me? Protestant problem?"
"I hear that there are -- and this is purely hypothetical -- Protestants getting married. And that's just not right. Because they aren't born again. They don't believe in the right things."
"What you're saying is ridiculous?"
"Is it? What kind of God would tell you that it's okay to fence off some people, just because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And you've created this state of wrong. So, you could easily designate anyone in that dimension -- do you like chocolate? Well, maybe God has decided that no one should eat chocolate anymore. And people who do, should be fenced up and put in a motor oil infested warehouse for days at a time."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying, Mrs. Whimple, that things that people believe in -- for whatever their reasons -- are completely arbitrary. And it's not really our government's job to make people believe one thing or another. That's where the government does not belong. And I believe -- and I think this past week in New York City nicely backs up my assumptions -- that the current in power administration wants to get into the thought police business. They want to tell you what you can and cannot believe. And -- based on the long traditional history of people who talk to God on a regular basis -- what is right and wrong can shift at any moment. First, gays can't get married. Then people can't assemble freely in the street. Before you know it, we've got to do something about the jews. Or hispanics. Or blacks. Or whatever. And the only road away from this dismal fascist future is to raise up your voice and say that it's not the future that you want. That terrorism is awful. And the kind of intimidation and intolerance and thought control that is being practiced by the propagandists and policy wonks of the Republican party is no different than what a group of people such as al-Queda are doing. That's what I'm saying."
Silence.
"Mrs. Whimple?"