The One and Only Katie wrote:
So often lately I'm finding religion is dominating the direction of our country and it scares me.
I'm from the south also (Arkansas) and I am 100% convinced that Kerry lost the last election on the gay marriage issue. I talked to so many people where the only issue they knew and/or cared about was gay marriage. The churches were campaigning hard against it, too.
I was actually discussing the election with some people and they called me a "sinner" because I wasn't strongly opposed to gay marriage. Every one of them voted for Bush strictly based on this issue.
Is this the type of thing you are seeing?
I have no problem with people voting based on whatever they feel is important, but I'm just amazed that this would be such a big issue to so many people.