DEFCON - The Defense of the Constitution

A new on-line organization called DEFCON, for Defense of the Constitution has organized. I have added the link to their home page. The first post on their Community Page in the DefCon blog was a welcome and a question as to why new members are joining the fight. Here is my response to that question.

September 29th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Alencon Says:

I’m in the fight because I’ve become convinced that the Religious Right will be happy with nothing less than imposing their views on all of American Society. While these people are entitled to their beliefs, they ARE NOT entitled to force those beliefs on the rest on us nor are they entitled to mold America to match their definition of morality. They’ll have to excuse me, but I’d really rather not have biblical law imposed upon our supposedly secular society.

I used to think fundamentalists were silly, ignorant, insecure and a bit naive, but basically harmless. I don’t believe that any more. Now I’m convinced that these people are dangerous and need to be fought and, if necessary, destroyed, because what’s at stake is nothing less than the future of the America we know and love.

Reluctantly I’ve had to accept that WE ARE in fact in the middle of a culture war. Worse, the powers of light are on the defensive at the moment and if we don’t get organized things are going to get rather unpleasant. We need to band together to defend freedom of thought and expression and the concepts of the Enlightenment. Specifically we need to defend science in general and the theory of evolution in particular, we need to defend the right of a woman to choose and to have control over her own body, we need to advance the right of gay couples to have the emotional and legal benefits of marriage, we need to insure that the United States is able to reap the benefits of embryonic stem cell research and we need to fight the incursion of religious symbols and icons into public buildings and public schools.

Let’s remember, WE didn’t start this fight, they did!