Jesus loves blue

"Loveth thy liberal friend as he is closer to God"
-Something Jesus never said, but should have.

So, I don't get it. How is it that this once sorta wacky group lead by the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and those gaudy folks on the "Praise the Lord" channel have now gotten legitimacy?

Is it that over the last four years we are so overwhelmed by moral-less liberal media that we needed to strike back at the slew of reality-based soullessness of our culture with zealotry? If so, how does Rupert Murdock's News Corp figure into that equation? Isn't he the one giving voice to all goes poor old oppressed conservatives flaunting their values on Fox News, all the while staring at Paris Hilton's chest on Fox?

Okay then, it must be the abortion thing. I mean, Bush championed the whole "culture of life" cause any chance he could get, right? So, it must be that most folks feel the unborn really do have rights beyond what exists legally today. In fact, it would seem that the unborn will have far more right to life than most adults and children far from the womb.

You see, this President is the guy who never deliberated more than thirty minutes (on average) about executing someone in Texas. The same President who allowed his attorney general to try and enforce the Federal death penalty against defendants in states whose attorneys general were not seeking the death penalty at all. Not to mention that the new US attorney general nominee was the same guy who would often leave out the defendants side of the story when briefing Gov. Bush on death penalty cases in Texas. I won't even get into the untold numbers of children who have died in Iraq because of this unfounded war.

I guess it can't be that then either.

The gay issue is a non-starter for me because the VP has a gay daughter that he has openly supported. I guess it's okay to know them personally, but never allow them into our cultural mainstream completely. God knows if they are treated like true citizens, then they are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights". We can't have that now can we?

So, what happened? When did we start believing the messages and ignoring the messengers?

With the events of the post-election world starting to take shape, I'm seeing a disturbing trend toward wound licking and finger pointing on the part of our Democratic leaders. All the while, there are real dangers beginning to take shape on our radar. This is one of my favorites:

A quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy.

This article lays out how the FDA will soon become a clearing house for radical anti-women policies in our healthcare system. In other words, if you're a woman, you will soon have no choice if this administration is left to it's own devices.

Here's my point. Don't let these guys tell you they have the moral right of way because the country's at their back. Messages are easily twisted, as Rove & Co. have so brilliantly shown. So it's time for a little spin of our own.

Any chance you can get, start drawing the line between this Administrations radical right ideals and their good buddies in repressive woman hating regimes around the world (like the Saudis). It seems like a stretch I know, but so was Saddam bombing the WTC. Somehow they got them to believe. The difference is, we have truth to back us up.