The Psycho Religious Righteous
As a mainline Episcopal priest, retired U.S. senator and diplomat, Danforth worships a humbler God and considers the right's certainty a sin. Legislating against gay marriage, for instance? "It's just cussedness." As he sees it, many Republican leaders have lost their bearings and, if they don't change, will lose their grip on power. Not to mention make the United States a meaner place.
Danforth is no squalling liberal. He is a lifelong Republican. And his own political history shows he is no milquetoast.
A man of God and the GOP, he is speaking out for moderation -- in religion, politics, science and government. The lanky figure once dubbed "St. Jack," not always warmly, for the perch he seemed to occupy on Washington's moral high ground, expects people will sour on the assertive brand of Christianity so closely branded Republican.
"I'm counting on nausea," he says.
In a political year that promises a fresh battle for the national soul, religion is emerging as a tool and a test, with Danforth's words marking a fissure within the GOP. The conservative evangelical Christian movement that helped propel President Bush and congressional Republicans into power has become a big, fat target, even as Democrats and GOP moderates agonize about how to capture more votes from the faithful.
"The Republican Party has been taken over by something that it's not," Danforth says over a suitably austere lunch of steamed vegetables in a well-appointed 40th-floor St. Louis club overlooking the Mississippi. "How do traditional Republicans put up with this? They put up with this because it's a winning combination, for now. It won't last."
Well I'd say I'm counting on nausea too, but the Religious Righteous made me sick to my stomach years ago. At this point I'm ready to see God call them all back. Or really, I think it would be Satan. These idiots who claim to know "what Jesus would do" live lives that are in utter contradiction to his teachings.
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i think we can assist with the demise of the religious right(which is neither religious nor right)by encouraging pat robertson to speak his mind whenever he thinks the Almighty is communicating with them. i think we should also arrange for maximum media coverage of the lunatic in kansas who goes around to tragic events like iraq casualty funerals and stands there, screaming "god hates fags." that should be the end of the concept of "intelligent design" right there!
OH gosh, who was that guy who ran against Barack Obama for the IL Senate seat, I think his name was Mike Keyes. I would have thought that his spewings would have showed how moronic it is to combine religion with the right.
obama's opponent in that one was alan keyes, who was himself quite a fan of anti-gay rhetoric. he proved himself to be a truly reprehensible human being when his own daughter declared she was gay, and keyes and his wife threw her out of the house. just the kind of reasoned, sensible individual you would want for your senator...where do we GET these people?
i'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why this issue gets so many people upset in...is it that these people have time on their hands, or they have to have an enemy to fight, a windmill to tilt at? what?
I keep going with the theory that they must think it means they have to marry someone of the same gender. What else could it possibly matter to them!
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