Marjorie Taylor Greene is a freshman US Representative from Georgia District 14. The qualifications to serve as a US Representative include being 25 years of age, a US citizen for a7 years, and a resident of the state you are representing.
Prior to her election, Mrs. Greene held and voiced some thoughts and beliefs about reasons for things in government and the world that she found otherwise inexplicable. For those beliefs and those expressions, yesterday the US House of Representatives voted to strip her from her roles on any House committees - essentially reducing her influence in the House and in the Federal Government to a single vote when called upon.
Her input will not be heard or considered in any deliberations, policy development, or crafting of legislation.
This is the death of conscience in our representative government. How many of us have thoughts and beliefs that may seem irrational or mystical upon which we rely for understanding and context for things we cannot fully comprehend?
Why are human beings seemingly the only self-aware life forms on earth? There was an intelligent super-being that had offspring it wanted to grow and develop, so it created a place for them - us - to grow. All other life and things were placed at their - our - disposal for their - our - use and learning.
Why is the global temperature rising? Carbon dioxide is a particular gas that helps the atmosphere trap solar heat. Mankind's development of carbon emitting machines adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and that miniscule additional amount of one type of 'greenhouse gas' that represents, in total, a miniscule portion of all greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the root of the rising temperatures.
Alternating electrical current is dangerous and must be understood in order to be worked with safely. Using imaginary numbers - square roots of negative numbers - makes the math work so that electricians and others avoid electrocution when following the mathematical results.
Punishing or excluding someone from full participation in a process they are otherwise qualified for - in this case, an elected representative in governing the nation - by simple virtue of their having once held unpopular or even misguided beliefs is to kill Conscience. The US House of Representatives has stripped one of its members of the protection of the Constitution's First Amendment. Because she has not in the past conformed to the current orthodoxy, she is marginalized and excluded.
The vote was unconscionable, and the outcome was immoral. Mrs. Greene is qualified to serve, and the process for removing her from office is already defined as an election every 2 years. Marginalization based on thought, ideas, intelligence, or understanding is not an option.
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