This story is a repost from theexaminer.com.

A legislator from Virginia cites a passage from the Bible that says if a woman has a child with some kind of disability, then she must have aborted her first pregnancy based on “dramatic evidence.” Now, if the Bible is true as this lawmaker claims, then Sarah Palin had an abortion the first time she was pregnant because her baby has Down syndrome.

Everyone knows this is true because the words of the Bible are the words of God, and Palin lives by the scriptures, so simple logic dictates that: Palin aborted her first child, and has not attacked this man’s remarks as false because he speaks God’s word, or, she did not have an abortion and doesn’t lash out because the man speaks God’s word.

As absurd as this seems, it is a troubling indicator of politicians quoting scriptures as if they are Constitutional law that applies to everyone. The Virginia delegate (Bob Marshall R, Manassas) who made the comment went on to cite Exodus 13:2 as his authority, and passed this information on to Governor McDonnell as a reason to stop support of Planned Parenthood. Governor McDonnell says he will revoke support for Planned Parenthood in Virginia, but he did not say whether Marshall’s rendering of the facts swayed his decision.

Earlier this month, Governor McDonnell changed the employment discrimination laws in Virginia to exclude gays from employment discrimination protection based on an edict from God that claims gays are an abomination. As an aside, how is it that God creates an abomination, and hates the abomination he created? Just wondering how that works.

Another instance of using the Bible’s archaic laws to discriminate and demonize gays is a beauty pageant contestant spouting her belief that God said to kill homosexuals, it is the law and therefore acceptable.

Miss Beverly Hills, Lauren Ashley, is vying to become Miss California, and like former Miss California, Carrie Prejean, she feels that homosexuality is wrong according to the Bible, and worthy of execution, taking things a step further than Ms. Prejean did (in public).

The problem is not just these hate mongering nut jobs citing scripture and verse as if they are the law of the land, the problem is when politicians start governing using scripture as their guide, the country will slide into theocratic rule. Before dismissing this prospect, bear in mind that in 2008, Mike Huckabee sought the Republican Presidential nomination with a recurring motto of “the Ten Commandments should be the Constitution, and that’s all we need.” Mr. Huckabee would make owning a graven image a breech of Constitutional law, although he did not mention whether or not, a wooden cross is a graven image.

The Republicans who embrace this archaic bunch of laws are sick on one hand and contradictory on the other. They pick laws from the Bible’s verses that reinforce their hate, greed and selfishness, but they never mention that adulterers were stoned in the Bible, and not the good kind of stoned either. They also never mention that their repeated lies would make them candidates for horrific punishment, because they are hypocrites.

If individuals choose to follow the Bible, then that is their choice and if it’s good for them, that’s great. However, when they use archaic Bible rules to discriminate and endanger other people, they are guilty of a crime against humanity. When a politician uses his fairy tale beliefs as a guide for governance, and causes discrimination and harm to members of the public, he is a theocrat.

The other problem with a theocracy is that anyone who displeases the leader becomes the next target. George Bush and Dick Cheney were close to running the country as a theocracy, and nearly broke America in the process. It is true with any religious rule, that at some point, the scriptures get distorted to fit one man or one group’s agenda, as is the case with radical Islam.

The Inquisition, Crusades, and witch-hunts were religiously incited campaigns that tortured or killed innocents for disagreeing or not complying with the theocracy. It is happening in Iran and other Islamic countries, and if Republicans and Conservatives have their way, it will happen here.

Are Republicans ready to accept theocratic rule like the Islamic Republic of Iran? Because if they are, they should beware of who runs the theocracy since the GOP doesn’t stand a chance against GOD. Besides, who knows which man-god will run the theocracy, or what scripture or Stone Age law is the basis for his decisions.

The only absolute is that the theocratic leader will be a man, because Christianity and the Bible discriminates against women as much as gays, and if you don’t believe it; why isn’t Sarah Palin attacking the man with the Bible for outing her abortion?

Either she had an abortion, or she did not, and is complying with the Bible’s edict for a woman to subject herself to a man; in this case she is subjecting herself to the man with the Bible who said she had an abortion, according to Exodus 13:2.