June 12, 2016 7:30 AM

Being a Republican culture warrior means never having to worry about being held accountable

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

(apologies to Keith Olbermann)

Sen. Frank Perdue (R-GA)

The junior senator from Georgia jokingly asked the audience at Friday’s Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference to pray for the death of President Barack Obama on Friday, choosing a chilling passage from Psalms to make his point…. Republican Senator Frank Perdue jokingly told attendees: “We should pray like Psalm 109:8 says: Let his days be few.”…. Christians…know that it is not just a wish for Obama to be out of office, but a call for vengeance upon a rival.

I have no desire to be perceived as bashing anyone- even a good, God-fearing, righteous Christian such as Sen. Perdue- for their Christian faith. Then again, the smug, arrogant, self-superior faith displayed by the junior Senator from Georgia has about as much to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ as the GOP platform is about love, tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion- things Jesus actually preached about.

That a sitting U.S. Senator is so smug and self-righteous he can’t see anything wrong with praying for the death of The Black Guy in the White House ©, a President he (like most Republicans) despises with every fiber of his being is distressing enough. What made it even worse is that some attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference took Perdue’s prayer as a joke and made light of it.

Yes, a U.S. Senator just prayed for the death of the President of the United States…and people thought he was making a funny. It’s OK, though; he’s a Republican, and he was just trying to get a few cheap laughs, right?

Think about that for a moment. Can you imagine the hue and cry, the weeping and gnashing of teeth that would have (justifiably) erupted has a Democratic Senator used the same Psalm to pray for the death of President George W. Bush during his time in office? A Republican does it, and…crickets.

What double standard??

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