Concise and unerring, Democracy vs. Theocracy: the President and the Senate Will Decide YOUR FUTURE by JoAnn M. Macdonald is an important work of non-fiction that illustrates the issues rearing their ugly heads in the American political climate regarding the separation between church and state. On a slippery slope, the contentious and uneven keeled landscape of democracy is heading further and further toward theocracy. So much so that the November election will prove paramount in securing a severance and disjointing effect of current trends by securing Supreme Court justices who believe to their core the founding fathers’ missives. By citing credible sources, in twelve meticulously researched, scripted and fully annotated essays, the author confirms the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court enabling the Christian Religious Right to move America toward a theocracy. The breach between religion and politics must not disappear. The future of democracy is here—build it now.
Born in the United States at a crucial time in its history, the twentieth century,the author witnessed political upheaval after World War II. With the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower followed by John F. Kennedy, the passing of the civil rights acts, the rioting that ensued, and the struggle for civil progress thereafter, Macdonald quickly became an historian.
Inspired by patriots of the Revolutionary War era such as Thomas Paine, the author speaks out against bigots and those who would deny civil rights to all Americans. A self-proclaimed champion of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Macdonald warns of the slippery slope to a theocracy from assaults on America's democracy by ultra-conservatives and dominionists. She continues to be involved in the political process by challenging citizens to register and vote their consciences.
Her book is timeless. It is important for the 2010 elections because the Senate must hold hearings and either deny or confirm the president's nominees for the U.S.Supreme Court. It is important for the 2012 Presidential Election because whoever is president will nominate a person for the High Court; whoever is in the Senate will deny or confirm the nominee. The U.S. Supreme Court determines the validity of laws passed by the Congress--therefore, it decides the possibilities for YOUR FUTURE!
Additionally, biographies of American women of the eighteenth century such as Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first American woman to be ordained a minister by a congregation (1853), provided the author with publication in the anthology "Voices from the Susquehanna" in 2005. A second biographical sketch, that of Maria Mitchell, the first woman to discover a comet--Comet Mitchell (1847)--will be in the next anthology due to be published in late 2010.
Macdonald continues to write biographies, currently with living persons, with her business "What's Your Story?".
