Dear Senator Santorum,
Today I was listening to an NPR interview with you, and I was devestated to hear of your plight. It seems that you find it a very rough row to hoe being a "person of faith" in this culture and to be public about it. Lambchop, I weep for you. It must be so achingly difficult to be a white college-educated male professional politician in this culture. My heart breaks with how much trouble you have ramming your cryptofascist religiously-motivated political agenda down people's throats. (Don't think I didn't see what you tried to do with the "No Child Left Behind" Act, either, okay? You're not that sly and I'm not that stupid.) Cry me a freakin' river.
Here's a thought, Rick: if everyone who is even a single angstrom to the sociopolitical left of the current Pope seems to be criticizing your stance on a whole lot of issues, maybe it's not because you're a Christian and maybe it isn't because you believe in God. Maybe, just maybe, it's because you're a jackass.
Look around and you might notice that there are a wide variety of people out there in the world who are "people of faith" and who work in various public arenas from the perspective of their faith who are not receiving, or have not received, for some reason, the same kinds of criticism.
Try for a few minutes to see if you can figure out what the difference is between you and them, Rick. And if you can't figure it out, ask Jimmy Carter, 'cause believe me, mon ami, he knows.
Points to ponder,
Kath
Posted by kath at August 4, 2005 09:16 PM