When Congressional representatives take office, they take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and they “take the obligation freely without mental reservation or purpose of evasion.”
The oath was especially prescient this year in the 112th Congress because Republicans and teabags arranged for the body to read portions of the Constitution as a reminder of what legislators swore to support.
It appears that many legislators missed the 14th Amendment when they read the Constitution because Republicans are opposing equal rights for all Americans; but it is nothing new.
Republicans have made it their stock and trade to deprive Americans of their rights based on religious dogmata, and their primary targets have been women and gays.
Since the start of 2011, Republicans nationwide have passed hundreds of laws that discriminate against women by taking away their right to choose their own reproductive health.
It is no secret that the attacks on women’s rights are borne of Christian-inspired ideology meant to force women to give birth and relinquish their equal rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
The same bible-based ideology is being used to discriminate against gays and their ability to marry and move around the country.
