Every day, every Republican violates the first amendment. Their support of the Christian religious right, a single religion, is a crime. Only a handful of our founding fathers were members of an organized religion. Most were deists and opposed religious control of their daily lives. Because Republicans support the CRR, they have waged a war on women’s rights for decades. Iowa has escalated that war, as their female governor signed a bill suppressing a woman’s right to control the health and future of her own body.

Thanks to the CRR, and their control of the Republican Party, our nation is moving backwards, while the rest of the world’s developed nations have taken social issues to a 21^st century level. America is moving back to the bad old days of the mid 20^th century.

Iowa’s Governor, Kim Reynolds, signed a bill preventing doctors to perform an abortion after a heartbeat from the fetus becomes discernible. Another f**k you from a female Republican who cannot be called a ‘woman.’

America is the only developed nation which has a large number of racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobics, misogynists, and white terrorists. We are the only nation with a growing number of white supremacists. America is the only nation which allows a single religion to control the daily lives of tens of millions of Americans.

Today’s Republican Party is the GOP in name only. Most of you are too young to remember when the right wing supported less government, and therefore less interference in our daily and private lives. Today’s fake-Republicans are a group of totalitarians who want to make all decisions for you and your family.

Republicans are about to learn a big lesson. Women are no longer asking our government to grant them their Constitutional rights; they are taking them. Women will soon dominate our government as we either vote the old, white men out of office who have harmed our nation for decades, or they simply die. 15 percent of the 115^th congress is between 65 and 69 years of age. 15.4 percent are between 70 and 79. 2.5 percent are 80 or older.

Bad news also for the CRR. The number of new Christian conversions in America is diminishing while the numbers of atheists and Muslims are growing quickly.

While our government is growing older, thanks to their rejection of necessary term limits, our nation is growing younger. Millennials are the largest voting bloc; the largest demographic in our nation. The average age of our nation’s 320 million people is 37.8 years of age. Time for change. 39.9 percent of congress is 65 or older.

If you are not a ‘feminist,’ you are not an American. Feminism simply means full equality for all women. I am nearly 72 years of age, and have been a feminist for my entire life. You should be too.

Sadly, Republicans are not.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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