September 23, 2003 5:39 AM

Hate the sin, hate the sinner even more

Alabama: Preview the Glories of a Fundamentalist Christian America!

Once again, Alabama leads the way in showing godless America the way to true enlightment and salvation:

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is the only True Christian since Fred Phelps willing to make his dedication to Old Testament condemnation the focal point of the effort to eliminate his own political obscurity. Reverend Phelps was an unknown Kansas preacher of a congregation smaller than a Deep South Dixie Chicks fan club before he began appealing to our natural hatred of homos by taunting mourners at funerals of gay bashing victims that their deceased loved ones are burning in Hell. Today, he is the subject of national news broadcasts and editorials (though unfortunately still maintains a congregation that can easily fit inside a Waffle House). Judge Moore was an unknown local judge in Gadsden before placing a poster of the Ten Commandments on his courthouse wall. After ensuring daily that the media was aware of his décor, Judge Moore was catapulted to fame and overwhelmingly elected Alabama’s highest jurist. Not satisfied with the emphasis he had already given the Old Testament (or with his still limited political stature), Judge Moore selflessly thrust the Lord (and himself) into the limelight by sculpting our Judeo-Christian commandments into a granite monument so large it makes Vatican icons look like Barbie furniture. And under the cover of night, without letting any of the other judges know, he snuck it smack center into the rotunda of the court building where no one could avoid seeing it and being exposed to God’s true law.

Right. And in doing so, Moore succeeded in marginalizing those millions of Americans who happen not to believe as he does- like myself, for instance. I'd never been taught that Christianity was synonymous with ignorance, intolerance, and hatred. Of course, I wouldn't call the "religion" practiced by Moore and his self-righteous fellow pietists Christianity, either.

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