Why must everything in the United States be a political issue? Why does our government believe that people cannot make choices for themselves and learn from them? What has happened to personal choice?

As I read and listen to the news I am not only irritated at the judgments of our society but also amazed at what an uptight society we are. To decide that anyone does not have the right to be gay or marry whom they choose is a blatant disregard for an individual’s right to choose his or her own experience of what life is.

It is the same with smoking and obesity. For a society to decide for others that their personal choices must be monitored and put under a magnifying glass is a violation of individuals personal right to live their own life.

Labels and disapproval are not the means needed to help others change and grow positively. Berating and guilt are the tools of past generations used to control one another. These are religious tools used for centuries by all sects and families to supposedly to achieve godliness. Now that we have entered into the Aquarian Age isn’t it time that we open ourselves to more loving spiritual values and principals?

I am not sure how many individuals are incarcerated in this country due to crimes that ultimately don’t deserve jail time, but as prisons have become big business I am sure there are way too many. What purpose does punishment serve without rehabilitation?

We as a society are failing not only ourselves, our families and one another, but have abandoned our compassionate and loving nature as a people. There is rarely tolerance in this society for even neighborly love. Looking at the youth of this generation one can see all this I speak of.

The angry music, sex, violence and drug mentality thrived upon by our youth, is a much different scenario than the generation of hippies and beatniks using love, peace, poetry and long hair to make statements.

Children killing other children, hate crimes, depression, and hopelessness to create change in life are all symptoms of a decaying way of life. To justify trying a juvenile as an adult is just plain wrong. Putting someone to death for killing another human is also non-correctional. The old adage, “two wrongs do not make a right” applies in both these scenarios.

Perhaps abortion is murder. But it must be a sin of personal conscience not one of my neighbor. Why do we need birth control to begin with? Well let’s see? If I am a teenager or a rape victim and find myself pregnant and unable or unwanting to care for a child then I am to decide adoption is the best alternative for my unborn egg or embryo. I have heard all the judgments as to why this is the only alternative, yet have no right to determine the safety or well being of this human I’m carrying in the future.

I may not wish to carry an unborn fetus because I do not want the attachment or responsibility for this other, yet am forced to believe that it is in the best interest of whom? Once again we come back to religion that tells us it is God. We have a responsibility to God to not murder this innocent soul.

It is all right to carry a baby to term allowing it to assimilate all the confused feelings the mother experiences during this pregnancy and then to hand it off to people who know nothing about you. In good conscience is it okay to bring an unwanted child into the world? Why should the government be the judge of this?

Denial and tolerance are not synonyms. Yet in the politically correct agenda in America they seem to be. I believe that our founding fathers meant for church and state to be separate when they were thinking about the future. The gay issue seems to be more about the Bible than it does about the sanctity of marriage. If we truly are to believe that all people are created equal then how can we determine for another that their free will and choice to pursue happiness should be abandoned?

The only reason the government takes up issues such as smoking, obesity, and gay marriage is because it financially affects economics. Most Americans won’t even allow themselves to be polled on such issues due to the stupidity of them. The working class poor in this country don’t have time to care about what is going on in government, they’re too busy working two or three jobs to survive. The middle class have worked so hard to not have to struggle that hard that they don’t want to make waves and most people don’t believe that politics will ever change and truly be “for the people by the people” anyway.

Our young people have little if any interest in politics due to these types of silly issues. Special interests and the elite few run our country’s political views. Views that I believe stand for the few, not for the many.

Human beings in America have the right to choose their politicians (supposedly), so why should they not have the right to choose their own partners for life, smoke in public or be obese?

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