The Real Winners?

Given this NY Times article - which says:

Christian conservatives … lost fights against same-sex marriage in all four states where it was on the ballot, and saw anti-abortion-rights Senate candidates defeated and two states vote to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

and quotes R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as saying:

It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed. An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.

Perhaps the real winners of the 2012 Presidential Election are these guys:
 

(http://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.com/)

(I know that dead people often vote in US elections, but not often do they have as much impact as Hitch did.)

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I saw that some rather fervently anti-Obama people had threatened to leave the US for some mythical nation in which their narrow view of the world would be more mainstream.  I’ve heard Australia and Canada mentioned.  I’ve also seen people from Australia and Canada vigorously deny that their nations are suitable candidates.  For example, both countries are bastions of homosexual tolerant, socialist leaning pro-choicers – and they are both plagued with rampant atheism.

In an effort to assist, and noting that two key issues for these people are right-to-life and institutional homophobia, I thought I might do a little research into which nations are most suitable for emigrating bigots.  I’ve found some which have banned both abortion and (at least male) homosexuality.  I’ve also provided figures for the proportion of each nation that is Christian.  For comparison purposes, the nation these people intend fleeing is nominally 78.4% Christian – nations with lower than this proportion are marked red.  Additionally, given that these fleeing bigots don’t like certain other religions (which I am too coy to mention directly), I’ve also indicated the proportion of Muslims in each nation (compare to current infestation representing 0.6% of the US population).

Benin	27% Christian	24% Muslim
Kenya	83% Christian	11% Muslim
Lesotho	90% Christian	0.05% Muslim
Mauritius	32% Christian	17% Muslim
Nigeria	48% Christian	50% Muslim
Senegal	5% Christian	94% Muslim
Somalia	0.01% Christian	99+% Muslim
Tanzania	62% Christian	35% Muslim
Togo	29% Christian	20% Muslim
Uganda	84% Christian	12% Muslim

(Note that slightly more than 50% of the Togolese have indigenous beliefs while slightly fewer than 50% of Mauritians are Hindu.)

For American “culture war” refugees, the nation which appears to be overwhelmingly the most attractive is Lesotho.  Unfortunately, Lesotho is a small landlocked nation which is poor but nevertheless a little bit socialist, having spent 7.6% of its GDP on health care in 2008 (compared with the virulently socialist 15.2% frittered away by the US Administration in 2008 – join the dots people).

For those who are incensed by such profligate misuse of the public purse, the most suitable haven (so long as they can put up with the relatively high numbers of Muslims and the whole being African thing) would have to be Kenya, with their 4.2% spending on Health.

Interesting, isn’t it? 

The country that seems to best suit this new wave of asylum seekers, those escaping the horror of four more years under an Obama-led government, may in fact be the country that Obama’s father came from.