One who leads best controls less. In any society in order to be prosperous and have a thriving society, leaders need to learn to back down and not try to control every aspect of life (personal, business, or otherwise). In a vastly mixed society as ours here in America which has such a broad range of belief systems, cultures, races, and opportunities this is even more critical. Even within a particular belief system(such as religion) there are many schools of thought, thus the large array of denominations (for lack of a better word). Due to this a social (political) leader can not nor should ever even consider using his/her personal, religious, cultural heritage (race or origin of family) as the divining rod for their social compass. Unless that teaching is based on compassion, tolerance and understanding that we are all different and one persons path may not be the same as someone else. We need people in office who will lead without forcing their personal religious beliefs upon the rest of us nor deny others of theirs. I as Governor of Montana would lead the battle to do away with control of our personal/family lives by those who wish to control our every move and force anyone to live according to their beliefs. When leaders cross the line of letting their religion dictate their social policy they have gone too far and infringing on the rights of everyone. We as citizens or as leader do not have to agree or even like what someone else does in their life or with their bodies but it is not our place to control others because of our personal likes or dislikes. |



