Yesterday I sent a letter to my Senators (Webb and Warner) responding to their votes to defund ACORN. I posted the brief letter on my blog, and the trolls came out from under the bridge.
First, here's the brief letter to Webb (the Warner letter was the same minus the reference to "born fighting," the title of Webb's autobiography):
Dear Senator Webb,
As one who supported you and volunteered for your campaign I am deeply disappointed and, quite frankly, disgusted by your vote on the ACORN funding cut.
As I am sure you know, ACORN is one of the few organizations in the United States that works solely to assist the poor and most vulnerable citizens. As with any large organization, including the United State Senate, they have their problems and have made their mistakes.
But how is it possible to cut the tiny federal funds for ACORN and continue massive federal expenditures to contractors such as Blackwater, whose employees have killed people?
This is a craven political vote of the worst kind, and I expect far better from someone who was born fighting.
Sincerely,
There is, of course, so much more that could be said to amplify the points, but my letters to Congress are never dissertations because, well, no one reads a dissertation anyway.
Here's the troll response:
Thank the Lord I converted to Catholicism and am largely spared this Protestant Liberation Theology blather. I wonder how robust is the congregational growth rate at Clarendon Presbyterian? I would bet anemic at best since so many potential congregants are just so dim and dense they don't understand the special relation Clarendon Presbyterian and CP's spiritual shepherd have with the Lord. This special relationship allows Clarendon Presbyterian to focus on support of any tin-horn left-wing socialist and totalitarian cause in preference to spiritual guidance to the parishioners. Dr. Ensign, you have missed your true calling as a pastor of a state approved church in Soviet Russia.
I've been threatened, called a communist and a heretic, and told to move to San Francisco "with the rest of the faggots," but this is the first time I've been told to move to Soviet Russia!
As a mentor told me when I was forced to resign a church position after speaking out on the marriage rights of same-gender couples, "if we are doing our jobs, there will be scars."
No scars from this one, but "Soviet Russia"? Really now. Can't they do better than that? Oh, and liberation theology, properly speaking, arose out of the Roman Catholic tradition in Latin America, but that would be picking nits. (Feel free to visit the blogand respond to the trolls if you like. I always ignore them.)
So, what's the most ridiculous charge leveled against you lately? Do dish.