Jaques,

I hope you are right. I see how you are optimistic that young evangelicals are able to think outside the box given to them by their evangelical elders. I'm not so sure of that. On a side note, I wish evangelicals studied human history, it would make them such better people.

Also, I hope Rudy Giuliani's young moderate, secular fans will desert him in the general election for a democrat because of his non-stop pandering to the religous right. Most of his decidedly atheist/non-believing fans such as myself have already deserted him (for Obama). How could you not after seeing him beat up on the little guy over and over again to pander to the religous right and Fox News Conservatives?

I want a president who can stand up for gay rights, compassion towards illegals, and stand up against the religous right. Rudy Giuliani on paper may seem to understand these values, but over the past several months he has sold his soul (if he had one) to fearful, hateful conservatives, although the press keeps declaring that he is "pro gay rights" and "pro choice". When was the last time he included gay rights issues in a stump speech? Conservatives want hate, not compassion. Rudy cant possibly get the nomination without hate.

I held my nose and voted for Reagan twice during the 80's - despite Jerry Falwell, but when the republican party sold what was left of its soul to Pat Robertson in 1988 I stopped voting for republicans absolutely - well, I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, but it's not the same thing.

Bush has been the worst president I could have imagined, and not just for his incompetence and lust for power. The Bushies have taken MY tax money and spent it on THEIR religion! This crap called faith-based initiatives they have forced upon us all has let me know without a doubt that the republicans no longer consider me an American citizen.

The social conservatives obviously consider me to be a man with no values as well.

As I've been witnessing the continued republican pandering to the neo-fascist values voters block it occurs to me they are the most fundamentally dangerous enemy our country has ever faced.

I'm leaving for Europe on a software-development business venture next year, for a couple of years perhaps.
If I see the republicans win again this coming election, I doubt I'll bother to return. I'll be taking my high-tech skills and experience out of the country for good, for my birthplace will have become a dark and forbidding land which has abandoned me, not the other way around.

The dominionists are destroying America, and you believers are too stupid and blind to realize it.