Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The Idaho Mountain Express, 4/27/05:
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?issue_date=04-27-2005&ID=2005102823
Christian right-wingers take a beating
By PAT MURPHY
Public opinion has been devilishly bad lately for rightwing
Republicans trying to brainwash Americans with political messages
crudely concealed in religious themes.
They were unimpressed when powerful GOP political figures--President
Bush, Congress, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush--contrived the slogan, "culture
of life," in demanding (unsuccessfully) that judges force dying Terri
Schiavo to be hooked to a feeding tube.
Polls found more than 70 percent of the public resented politicians
intervening in the case.
Now, another blow to the latest GOP claptrap dressed to look like
religion: denouncing opponents of ending filibusters against Bush's
judicial androids as "against people of faith."
Bad news again.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday shows 66 percent
opposed to changing the filibuster rules.
A plurality--40 percent--also believe religious conservatives have too
much influence, a sentiment shared by minister and former Sen. John
Danforth, R-Missouri, who believes the GOP is hostage to religious
zealots.
The message: Religion for politics is offensive.
Attacks won't subside.
Tenacious Republicans shaping America's New Order have too much of
their agenda concealed by religion.
But, oh, the hypocrisy.
Examples: The Family Research Council, a 21st century clone of the
Spanish Inquisition that sponsored "Justice Sunday" to back Bush
judgeships, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the headliner who
joined in the bashing of Christians by other Christians.
The Family Research Council, obsessed today about ending filibusters,
in 1998 ferociously supported filibusters against President Clinton's
judicial nominees, as did Frist and the minority-party GOP.
My, my.
Frist, whose Presbyterian elders oppose his political misuse of
religion, is hooked on being president, not on spiritual do-gooding.
The real Republican goal is to get judges who'll ratify a creeping
American theocracy, certify oligarchic economic doctrine, cripple
civil rights and labor laws, nullify expanding rights of women and
minorities, restore industrial pollution, dilute First Amendment
rights, institutionalize presidential power to roam the world spoiling
for war, codify increased police powers over Americans, and expand
secrecy for those who rule.
"People of faith" promoters probably broke the Ten Commandments by
falsely denouncing those opposed to their doctrines--"Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbor." (Exodus 20: 16)
Inside the frayed cover of my ardent Presbyterian mother's Bible,
printed in 1913 and given to her as a child and now my keepsake, she
taped a lifelong devotional, Proverbs 4:7.
Sen. Frist and other theocratic quacks should read it: "Wisdom is the
principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get
understanding."
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