WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO WHEN DEMOCRATS WIN AND THEN ACT JUST LIKE RIGHT WING KKK REPUBLICANS?
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It drives me crazy when a CNN talking head can say to a Democratic lawmaker-- like, say, right-leaning Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)-- "You Democrats are all over the map on this" (Bush's war and occupation of Iraq). That's what happens when there's no Democratic president to be a (more or less) final arbiter in defining party positions. If a strong president and most of the party's elected reps are all on one page, someone from the party with another point of view is just "a renegade" or a freethinker or even a rebel; no biggie. But today the news media can pick and choose any Democrat they want to make any point that the media outlet wants. Ergo, you see an awful lot of much-loathed Joe Lieberman (Likud-CT) masquerading as someone competent to give a "Democratic perspective" on an issue. Now this crap is bad enough. But it could be worse.
Believe it or not, the Democrats are the majority party in the Alabama House of Representatives. Yippeeee? Um... not necessarily. Last week, the Speaker of the House, Seth Hammett, and the House Majority Leader, Ken Guin, announced that early in 2006 they will push for a law that would allow local school boards to offer "Bible literacy" classes as elective high school courses.
And while Republicans are screaming that this is their issue and the Democrats ought to keep their mitts off it, people concerned about separation of church and state (original intent Constitutionalists? actual conservatives?) are plenty pissed off. "Anytime you specify the study of a specific religion, it just opens up the likelihood of abuse that it will turn into a devotional text rather than an academic text," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. "I just don't like the idea of taking one religion and singling it out for special treatment, even as an elective course, and, in addition, this book has problems, not as many as some, but it has problems nevertheless." Turns my stomach to see Democrats behaving like a bevy of backward, ignorant Buy-Bull-thumpin' Repugs!
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 7:41 AM
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Amen to all of the above.
I just wanted to add that the Rev. Barry Lynn has been a frequent guest on Air America Radio's "Morning Sedition" and is one of the REALLY good guys, not least because he IS a working minister (United Church of Christ).
There are an awful lot of authentically religious--as opposed to junk-religious--people in this country who have probably been feeling under siege themselves in recent years, but some of them have been fighting back, and Barry Lynn's voice may be the most forceful and eloquent I've heard.
Any sincerely religious person knows that the separation of church and state envisioned by the Founders is the best thing that could have happened for religion in the U.S.
Or, ironically, perhaps the worst thing, considering the perversions of religion that have flourished along with the real thing.
K
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