HOW TO Spot an Evangelical Republican 2
From the This Is To Good To Pass Up Department (aka the Department of Not Being Able To View the World Critically Department):
Daniel DiRito at ASZ:
They’re opposed to sectarian conflict in Iraq but in favor of sectarian politics in the United States.
Number Nine:
They’re opposed to homosexuality and same-sex relationships but they’ll vote for a presidential candidate who does drag and lived with two gay men if he can beat Hillary Clinton and her “typically†unfaithful heterosexual husband.
Number Eight:
They wouldn’t dare vote for a Clinton given Bill’s disgraceful sexual antics in the White House but they’re happy to support a candidate who used New York City funds to carry on an adulterous affair.
Number Seven:
They criticize Democratic candidates for suggesting they would only nominate pro-choice judges to uphold the law of the land while they require their own candidates to pass religious litmus tests in conflict with the law of the land.
Number Six:
They’re in favor of abstinence only sex education even if it leads to more unwed teen pregnancies and more parent sponsored abortions (call it the evangelical version of NIMBY – not in my back yard; NIMBU – not in my babygirl’s uterus).
Number Five:
They’re in favor of the separation of church and state if it involves opposing a congressional inquiry into the fundraising and spending habits of leading televangelists but opposed to the separation when it comes to selecting a presidential nominee.
Number Four:
They support candidates who endorse more funding for AIDS in Africa while embracing a candidate who favored quarantining AIDS patients in America as well as having Hollywood fund AIDS research instead of the government.
Number Three:
They tout Ronald Reagan as their political icon despite the fact that he was unable to acknowledge the toll of HIV on gays in America or even utter the word AIDS…while they and their churches now run around talking about saving Africa from the ravages of HIV…as long as it doesn’t involve condoms.
Number Two:
They talk about their Christian values while they favor denying health care treatment to the children of illegal immigrants. Family values apparently stop at the waters edge (that would be the Rio Grande river).
Number One:
They’ll never make enough money to truly benefit from George Bush’s tax cuts for the rich or condemn his doubling of the national debt but they’re happy to call the Democratic candidates who supported an increase in minimum wage and favor a national health care system “unacceptable tax and spend liberals.”
It is one thing to allow one’s religious and moral beliefs to inform one’s vote.
It is quite another to allow self-ordained “religious” figures to stampede one’s vote.
December 9, 2007 at 2:22 pm
This is just a bunch of illogical bigotry. People who write this crap should have to take courses in intellectual logic. Nothing could ever force them to open minded, but they could at least learn to make sense.
December 12, 2007 at 2:29 am
(Poor Opie ~ you need to get a life as well as a brain. The preoccupation with “logic” when you can’t reason your way out of a wet paper bag outs you.)
Great post! SO true! Thanks for sharing!