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I will be withholding my regular donations to the Republican Party for the time being as a result of my embarrassment (for lack of a better word) regarding the ways in which religious views are clouding good leadership in this country. That’s how I see it.

The Schiavo fiasco has been perpetuated by the impetus of so many religious conservative voices, including those of my President, that I’m informing the party that, as a result, it won’t be receiving my funds until I decide to do otherwise.

I always decided to look the other way as regards the influence of religion over politics because I acknowledge the necessity of some political expediency in real politics in relation to the requirement of actually getting elected.

Religious views are only interesting to me as fascinating examples of the human mind in operation. I have finally reached an overload in my ability to overlook their most recent incursion into politics. To throw support behind people as absolutely selfish and cruel as Terri Schiavo’s parents and to work so hard to upset legal and medical normalcy is short-sighted, self-involved, and narrow-minded to the extreme. This is how I see it.

In any event, enlightened leadership in this case would have proceeded to explain to the citizenry why we have branches of government in the first place and why, in matters such as this, legal and medical precedents are paramount. A word of advice to legislative bodies - that this case had been decided long ago and that if a different result is desired for future cases then that is what the legislative process is made for - would have been in order here.

I don’t know what all this betokens for my future political evolution, but it is a stark indicator of where I am now.

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