South Dakota, how I thought I knew thee. Childhood state of my father and currently containing close to 30 of my extended clan of aunts, uncles, and cousins, this is a state that I have visited often and got to know somewhat well over the years. South Dakotans are the same as New Jerseyans, differentiated only be geography. We have schools, hospitals, and churches. They have schools, hospitals, and churches. We have Wal-Marts, roads lined left and right with fast food franchises, and every-expanding suburban sprawl. Ditto for SD. But apparently South Dakotans are a lot quicker to sign on to the agenda of social control by the conservative movement than residents of “America’s Armpit”. How? Let’s pass an abortion ban!

There’s no call for this action. There’s no reason. The numbers don’t require drastic action. It’s not as if a state of 750,000 residents is having 50,000 abortions per year. But apparently this is a state that is filled with men and women who believe, with all their hearts, that enforcing their moral code through law is a justifiable cause. This is a very un-American process, because it means the suppression of the minority by a majority. Secular, rational people will always be outnumbered by idol-worshipping, uneducated Christians (if you refute this position, please explain why every church is filled with statues, crosses, stain-glass windows and other representations of figures of the faith that people bow down to, pray to, and sometimes even kiss out of ‘devotion’ and explain why Christians are at the forefront of the ‘intelligent design’ movement that seeks to exclude proven knowledge from our educational system in favor of superstitious mythology). So is it right and just that non-Christians have to live by Christian morals through popular-at-the-moment laws like this? Isn’t this what we are fighting to prevent in our war against Islamic fundamentalism that is the foundation of the terror movement?