Today, the
American Family Association unwittingly revealed the moral bankruptcy of the religious right for all to see.
You may have heard that Britney Spears was due to make a guest appearance on "Will & Grace." She was reportedly due to play a fundie Christian who hosts a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixins." NBC later claimed that the press release announcing the show was a mistake, but the AFA claimed credit for forcing NBC to rewrite the script.
Whether it's true or not, the silence of the AFA and other religious right groups on Ann Coulter has been deafening. To hear the AFA spin on "Will & Grace," the proposed Britney storyline was beyond the pale since it mocked Jesus' death on the cross--and on Good Friday, no less. Let's see here now--an episode poking fun at televangelists is an outrage, yet a so-called joke about calling for the assassination of a Supreme Court justice isn't? What's wrong with this picture?
For me, this affair illustrates exactly why we shouldn't ignore Coulter's remarks regarding John Paul Stevens. The religious right yammers on and on about how this country is in a moral decline. Believe it or not, they're right.
Where have we gone in this country when "joking" about threatening the life of a Supreme Court justice can be blown off as satire? Where have we gone in this country when the Senate Majority Leader can claim that Democrats want to "kill" and "assassinate" Shrub's judicial nominees and not be sanctioned for it? Where have we gone in this country when the Speaker of the House can get away with making unfounded accusations about links between a Dem donor and drug cartels?
The religious right's silence on these issues should make its moral bankruptcy obvious to anyone. They scare Dems into voting Repub by whining about abortion and gays. And yet, first they give it to the Dems in the neck by supporting cuts to education and other social programs. And then they go postal over trivial stuff on TV while they sit and twiddle their thumbs at real moral outrages.
As if this charismatic/pentecostal Christian ever needed a reason why he'd never, ever become a Republican, this was a lulu.
cross-posted at The Christian Dem Home Journal