Sure, you want the likes of me to take you seriously. And I’d love to. But you’ve really got to knock it off with the Obama-as-antichrist business if you want that to happen.

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What I like most about Steve Cornell’s column in our paper last weekend on Teh Dreaded Gay is one single line:
We will be under the tyranny of tolerance and no exception will be tolerated!
The tyranny of tolerance!
My goodness. How despotic to ask that all people, regardless of whom they might be sleeping with, have […]

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Via Sullivan, Steven Waldman notes that more evangelicals voted for McCain-Palin than for George W. Bush:
It seemed like 2004 was a high water mark for evangelical influence. They loved President Bush and helped sweep him into victory.
Well guess what: evangelicals made up an even bigger part of the McCain vote than the Bush vote.
Born again […]

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A little bit of schadenfreude as we read of Dr. James Dobson wringing his hands in the wake of Obama’s election:
Dr. Dobson went on to congratulate Obama on “his stunning victory.”
“It was indeed a historic accomplishment, to be the first black man in American history to be elected to the highest office in the land.
“But, to […]

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Hm. Fascinating New Yorker piece on sexual attitudes among the young - and how they differ in red states and blue states. In a nutshell:
Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a […]

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Dauphin Co. reader who saw the post here on that “non-partisan” Pa. Family Voters Guide sends me something he’d sent to the Patriot-News when he thought it was their doing… they said it wasn’t. So worth publishing her thoughts here:

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Note from a colleague:
…on NPR this morning: Again, the old “abortion/same-sex marriage” response, followed by
“The country can go broke. As long as we have morals, the Lord will watch over us,”
Sweet. We don’t need to do anything about the economy. So long as God is hooking us up - it’s all good!
Whew.
Funny, then, to see […]

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…I gotta find me some shades.
Via Pastor Dan, Focus on the Family - Dobson’s organization - tells us what will become of the U.S. by 2012 unless you follow God’s mandate to vote Republican:
Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a Democratic majority in both the House and […]

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How about, “very.”
Just got the Pennsylvania Family Institute’s voters guide inside this week’s Merchandiser. “An impartial, non-partisan guide to the November 4 election.”
Right.
Just for a taste, let’s look at the presidential race. We’ve got 14 areas the Pa. Family Institute lists as issues. In this order:
1. Traditional marriage in Federal Law - supports federal Defense […]

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Amazing, actually - read the whole thing. But again, the one thing that jumps out:
Dobson says to her, “We’re on the same team. I’m just trying to serve the lord as you are.” He notes that he and other ministers have prayed for “God’s intervention” and that “God’s perfect will will be done in November […]

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Palin to James Dobson:

“I know at the end of the day, putting this in God’s hands, the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4,” the GOP vice presidential nominee told James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, who interviewed Palin by phone Monday in Colorado. […]

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Via Sullivan and Reddit. Just… wow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wQfQtpDAc

Real America, baby.

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We touched on this in the vid last week:
Palin said that Obama palled around with “terrorists,” plural. And Obama does not have a different view of America than “most of us.” Most of us love this country but know that its imperfections are worth tackling. Palin believes the country is already perfect and all criticism […]

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AP story today:
WASILLA, Alaska - The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God’s will from the governor’s office.
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What she didn’t tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was […]

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And so this morning, amidst the continuing financial crisis which is going to shake itself out in ways we can’t even yet imagine, and constrain the future of our country in ways so profound that it may very well hasten our fall from the top of the global trash heap, I get an e-mail from […]

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Via Sullivan, Palin the young earth creationist:
Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. “She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band […]

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Larison, thoughtful and as always worth the read:
As the temporary ability to pay increases, restraint recedes and a culture of feeding and exciting appetites grows.  As virtue is the moderation or even denial of appetites, moral integrity in society as a whole weakens as this culture gains ground.  When limits to our consumption seem to fall away, […]

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You, of course, have been following the bit over the weekend about Sarah Palin’s kids - first, questions about whether her fifth child was actually her grandchild. That discussion now seems to have been put to rest by the revelation that her 17-year-old daughter actually is pregnant.
Republicans now are insisting that the partisans lay off the […]

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So you’re in California, and you’re applying to the University of California. The 10-campus system is pretty hard to get into, and so you’ve taken college prep classes. But then you find out the university isn’t going to accept those classes; and you’re furious.
And, being furious, you sue.
But now, you’ve lost. Because a California judge […]

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So long as right-wingers are in control, that is.

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