When I first began this diary, a whopping one week ago, I was concerned that I wouldn't have enough to write about. "Sure," I said, "The Bush Administration is pretty bad. But are Bush and his cronies really going to do something putrid on a semi-regular basis, upon which I can then comment?"
Boy, was I naïve. Not only has Bush given me ample ammo this week, but he now has his special interest buddies adding fuel to the fire.
When I first began this diary, a whopping one week ago, I was concerned that I wouldn't have enough to write about. "Sure," I said, "The Bush Administration is pretty bad. But are Bush and his cronies really going to do something putrid on a semi-regular basis, upon which I can then comment?"
Boy, was I naïve. Not only has Bush given me ample ammo this week, but he now has his special interest buddies adding fuel to the fire. A case in point:
I was flipping through the paper today, reading up on our new liberal savior Arlen Specter,* when I read the following disturbing, surreal paragraph:
"On Sunday, James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, a conservative activist organization, told ABC's `This Week' that Specter is `a big-time problem for us...He must be derailed."
First of all, when you have an organization named "Focus on the Family," do you really need to point out that it's a conservative organization? I think that's pretty self-explanatory.
Secondly, how delusional and dogmatic are these Christian conservatives? I mean, they just "won" the election. They have their puppet sitting securely in the White House with what he calls a "mandate." They picked up seats in the Senate. They have Cerberus... er...Tom Delay patrolling the halls of the House of Representatives. They have the court system under their thumb. You think that they'd be satisfied.
Think again. They have a problem with little old Arlen Specter; that bastion of fiscal conservatism who's been doing the dirty work of the Republican Party since the McKinley Administration. And they don't just voice their disapproval of Specter, they call for him to be "derailed."
These "Focus on the Family" types are focusing on way more than their families. They're focusing on power. They're focusing on whatever they can get their grubby little hands on. They don't care about abortion. They don't care about gay marriage. If they did, they'd be intellectually honest enough to admit that the number of abortions has increased under the Bush Administration and that federally-sanctioned gay marriage doesn't even technically exist. They just care about where, when and how they can interject their belief system into the lives of others.
These people are like those a-holes in high school, who would run red lights or smoke in the bathroom or steal from their mother's purse just so they could tell their friends about it. They have nothing better to do and they just want the story. They want to congregate (that's what they do, right? They congregate) at their churches or their prayer meetings and gloat about how they kept two "evil heathens" who love each other from getting married or how they told a women in the inner city whom they'll never meet what she can and cannot do with her vagina. They are intolerant, they are selfish and they make a mockery out of everything that Christ stood for.
Does that mean that all Christians and all religious folks are bad people? No, of course not; it doesn't even mean that many of them are. But they are being lead by some false prophets and they are being lead astray.
Ok...that was unexpected. I sort of went off on a rant there. Well...it made me feel better anyway.
* To any Christian interest groups who may be reading this and be tempted use this sentence as a reason to deny Specter the Judiciary chairmanship, know that I'm being facetious. Calling Arlen Specter a "liberal savior" is like calling Fox News "Fair and Balanced." It just isn't the case.