FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY

I have decided that "freedom" and "democracy" cannot coexist and are in fact at odds with one another.

HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE: Our country becomes dominated by evangelic Christians and other moralistic groups that exhibit the same "virtues" and voting patterns. In this case, a union between church and state, and prohibition of abortion/contraception are completely democratic, because each person would cast a vote, and the majority would justifiably sway our country in such a (horrifying) direction according to our own governmental principles.

However, in the same (not-so-far-fetched)hypothetical above, one would not be free to make decisions about one's body--even though one still lives in a democracy, which fairly (according to democracy) voted for the restrictions in the first place.

Are there creative ways to reconcile the two? I suppose that is what the Bill of Rights and Constitution sought to do, although these measures are really nothing compared to the issues at hand today. Like gay marriage. So if the majority does not favor/allow gay marriage, gay people are not FREE to marry, although we live in a democracy.

It is my humble opinion that America cannot present itself as the Land of the Free and as a Democracy at the same time. Pick one.

(Actually my entire argument is irrelevant because we don't even have a genuine democracy, and I don't believe in freedom anyway. But you know, in the grand sense these terms are abused in the first place everything I said holds)