THE MELTING POT MYTH; PART 3

When our country was founded, there was little competition between laws and religious beliefs as there are today.  As time went on laws were enacted as though religious beliefs demanded them...government began to get into people's lives and bedrooms.  Anal sex became a crime (if people were caught, that is).  It didn't seem to matter that it is performed in heterosexual relationships and often used where contraceptives are unavailable.  Amusingly, celibate priests have often set rules for acceptable sexual practice.  They allowed the 'rhythm method' which physically is most unreliable as they knew nothing about fertility or medicine.

Muslim women hide their faces because if they show their face men may get sexual desires.  Women who are raped are usually held as being at fault.  The variety of the many religions, accepted as bona fide religions, has included newly invented beliefs that border on the totally ridiculous.  It would seem that any mentally ill, delusional person can invent a religion because of what he hears in his own head and believes to be direct communication from some God or other....and our government will offer protection for them.

We will never have connectedness among our citizens in this country as long as religion takes precedence over the laws of the land, which should be adhered to by all.  As long as we have elected officials spouting religious dictates during legislative debates and trying to make laws that fulfill the dictates of their own religion while violating those of others, there can only be discontent and distrust.

As long as our present president, Barack Obama, who has a white mother and a black father, is introduced as our first 'black' president we will have confusion and racial biases.  Obama is the first president to join both black and white...why has he never been recognized as such?  Why is that our racial bigots have not accepted that racially- mixed people produce children who can grow up to achieve great things when encouraged and helped to become educated?

The "melting pot" metaphor comes from the 1908 play, The Melting Pot,  You can obtain a copy from Amazon here.   I've not seen it nor plan to do so.

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