"... against people of faith." - GOP Declares Jihad

"There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself."

Patrick J. Buchanan
1992 Republican National Convention
Houston, TX
August 17, 1992

Pat Buchanan sounded crazy when he said it, but he would eventually be proven right. Who knew? He just missed his mark by 13 years.

In 1992, the only religious war in this country was raging in the hearts of frightened Evanglicals and right-wing demagogues. What has changed is that those very people now hold the levers of power in every branch of the federal government. The poison in their hearts is spilling out onto the fabric of American law and society.

Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WASHINGTON, April 14 - As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day "Justice Sunday" and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but under the heading "the filibuster against people of faith," it reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

The leaders of the religious right have descended past self-parody into madness. What are these Christians thinking? Can they really believe that it is appropriate or, frankly, safe for them to co-opt the Name above all names for their cheap, cynical machinations? Do they think that He will have His name so abused? This is not what Christ died for, and it certainly isn't why He rose from the dead. Stop invoking the name of my Christ for the sake of a political movement that places no apparent value on His life and teaching. This kind of spectacle does not glorify His name.

Please, stop. Dr. Dobson, Dr. Frist, you are blaspheming my savior. Please, stop.