Deviant Politicians

Well, Virginia's governor and his party pushed through a law that demonstrates that today's American politicians have exceeded their grant of authority under our governmental structure.

Let's do a quick refresher on our government's basis of existence and power in this country:  To protect our health, safety, and welfare.  It's not to impose their opinions, cultish beliefs, or religious morality on citizens.

So McDonnell and his party feel self-righteous enough to make it one of their governing aims to confront women with the reality of their fetus. Let's forget about the grammatical and realistic problems with their expressed aim. Rather, let's ask, why didn't McDonnell and the Republicans play non-discriminatorily and push legislation that aimed to confront both genders with the reality of their fetus? Its because public officials today have so over-reached, in so many ways, into our private lives (and wallets) and unto our backs, that it can only be seen now as deviance that plays on pathology.

Why, or how, is it that such a powerful group of people still don't understand the innuendo and ramifications of enacting laws that clearly demonstrate that they do NOT assign the same amount of human dignity and respect to women as they do to men and that clearly demonstrate that they have egregiously over-reached? What I have found to be true of human behavior is that the individuals who are the loudest and most political at rejecting others' humanity have dysfunctionally dismissed, cloaked, and internalized their own humanity to the point of pathology and deviancy.

Is this dysfunction a symptom of the moral confusion and selfishness of today's self-professed christian "fellowship" that the Republican party is so attached to and identified with? Or have persons with these dysfunctional tendencies found christianity and republican-ism to be shelters for their pathology?

Either way, today, we are not talking about conservative-ness of any party or public official. Rather, we are talking about deviant behavior that so crosses socially and ethically accepted thresholds as to result in unconstitutional government and pathology--social and individual.