In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she doesn’t deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ.
- Bob Jones III
Ah, America…the melting pot, land of tolerance and acceptance…in your dreams. Now that the repressive Religious Right can reasonably claim to have delivered four more years in the White House to George W. Bush, they’re expecting their reward. Apparently, it involves turning the clock back to the 1950s.
You’d think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like “love thy neighbor,” “turn the other cheek,” “good will toward men,” “blessed be the peacemakers” and “judge not lest you be judged.”
Yet somehow I’m not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office.
I’m getting more the feel of a vengeful mob - revved up by rectitude - running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and infidels….
The Christian avengers and inquisitors, hearts hard as marble, are chasing poor 74-year-old Arlen Specter through the Capitol’s marble halls, determined to flagellate him and deny him his cherished goal of taking over the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Not only are they irate at his fairly innocuous comment after the election that anti-Roe v. Wade judges would have a hard time getting through the Senate. They are also full of bloodthirsty feelings of revenge against the senator for championing stem cell research and for voting against Robert Bork - who denounces Mr. Specter as “a bit shifty” - 17 years ago.
“He is a problem, and he must be derailed,” Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, told George Stephanopoulos.
Sounding more like the head of a mob family than a ministry, Dr. Dobson told Mr. Stephanopoulos about a warning he issued a White House staffer after the election that the president and Republicans had better deliver on issues like abortion, gay marriage and conservative judges or “I believe they’ll pay a price in the next election.”
What, like they’re going to support a Liberal Democrat? Give me a break. Of course, if you view yourselves as the Chosen Ones, I suppose it becomes much easier to decide that you deserve to be treated with kid gloves.
How arrogant and self-righteous are these people? Check this out:
Mr. Stephanopoulos asked Dr. Dobson about his comment to The Daily Oklahoman that “Patrick Leahy is a ‘God’s people-hater.’ I don’t know if he hates God, but he hates God’s people,” noting that it was not a particularly Christian thing to say about the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. (Especially after that vulgar un-Christian thing Dick Cheney spat at Mr. Leahy last summer.)
“George,” Dr. Dobson haughtily snapped back, “do you think you ought to lecture me on what a Christian is all about?” Why not? The TV host is the son of a Greek Orthodox priest.
This is what you voted for, America. You have cleared the way for these intolerant, self-righteous, self-superior, judgemental trolls to spend the next four years despising and oppressing those who are different, trashing our liberties, and imposing their narrow view of poltical and personal morality on Americans.
Be careful what you vote for, America…because you just might get it….
