I am. I thought the Religious Right movement was dead: Jerry Falwell died, James Dobson panicked, and Pat Robertson endorsed an immoral (by their standards) candidate. But here comes Romney and Huckabee: Two anti-intellectualists who have no knowledge of anything outside their misguided, bigoted religious beliefs. Ron Paul, whom I'm less afraid of and might be able to tolerate as president, openly stated that Huckabee reminded me of fascism. I can't help but agree: Do you know what Christian Reconstructionism is? http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisrec.html. This is the political platform of Mike & Mitt. Huck might seem like a nice guy, but this is his guise for totalitarian, theocratic politics, which are derived from the Old Testament, specifically Deuteronomy and Leviticus (try reading for 15 minutes without a "WTF!?"), involving the isolation of AIDS sufferers, further discrimination of gays & lesbians, possibly atheists and non-Christians. I'll see you in the Hell House/Exodus International, my droog*! What moderate Christian David Kuo pointed out to Chris Matthews and James Dobson's pet Tony Perkins, who just doesnt get it, on Hardball is that Huckabee (and thus also Romney) is using his faith for political gain. Jesus himself takes the trunk seat in the minivan to political ambition once again. In the great tradition of the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, the majority of the wars in pre-1700 Europe, Jesus is forgotten in favor of worldly political ambition. And this ambition will result, as it always has, in the loss of life and freedom for all of us. In a way, these two men are just as, or more immoral than Guliani, Thompson, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Tom DeLay, and Bill Frist combined precisely because they are using their personal beliefs for political gain. Jesus is being paraded around in a cage like a famous captive in the streets, displayed to all of the people in town.
Once again, Christianity is completely bankrupt as a moral guide because it can so easily be not only forgotten, but used, in the most shameless of ways, in the face of temptation, especially political ambition.
Will they see this? Twice they have not, and if they fail again, we will all be damned.
Welcome to the Republic of Gilead, young Handmaid...
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*Exodus International is an organization funded by James Dobson's Babylon, Focus on the Family, to convert self-hating homosexuals into heterosexuals with A Clockwork Orange-style torture. Read about it here: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=327
Also, according to a recent article in IR available online, the ex-gay movement is gaining momentum. Welcome back to Sick Sad World (Daria, but seriously.)!
