F's

"Faith, Family and Freedom." These words pronounced by Presidential candidate Rick "The Homophobic Bigot" Santorum in Iowa forecasts yet another season of gay-bashing, creationism and railing against the rights of women to control their own bodies. Here we go again. 

Those who are enthralled with Faith should stop and consider what it is like to be a homosexual person listening repeatedly to powerful men threaten his/her human rights with impunity in the media day in and day out. Those enthralled with Faith should also consider that back-tracking in education to creationist debates will just put American children further behind in global educational ratings. Those who are enthralled with Faith may also work out for themselves why the God of Mormon edged out the God of Evangelism by eight votes in Iowa. 

Family and Freedom are often two phenomena which are antagonistic. It is the rare Family which raises its children to have Freedom of Thought. Rarer by far among those who are enthralled with Faith. Santorum's Freedom is actually religious isolationism. Freedom from Science. Freedom from Independent Thought. Freedom from cooperation in a socially responsive society.

Mr. Romney, while less evangelical, screams about how awful European social democracies are. Perhaps he is still upset by his experiences as a Mormon missionary in Paris in his youth. That must have been a trying time for him. The reality is that Faith, Family and Freedom are empty concepts in this rapidly unifying human species. Religion, Genetic Narcissism and Intellectual Isolationism will not improve the living of Americans in the evolving world.