Posted by Bob on 10/3/2007, 5:48 am, in reply to "Religious right threatens to run own candidate" She avoided the controversy, which was perhaps the politically sensible thing to do, if not the morally correct one. Everyone in the US is free to express their religious views, and to vote according to them. So is Pelosi, so is James Dobson, so is Rudy Giuliani. Religion and politics are known as the two rude topics of dinner discussion, but republican democracy demands that they be discussed, and requires that disagreements, however intense, be subjected to the political process of debate and vote. Unfortunately, what has happened in recent years, is that those who are not satisfied with the outcome of those votes, are increasingly turning to what Bill Clinton (of all people) termed the "politics of personal destruction," of which he was a participant. Both conservatives and liberals are now hyperventilating over serious political matters. Not that those matters are not serious, they are. But what is more serious is the undermining of the political process itself. Demonizing people who disagree with us, digging through their garbage for any hint of scandal, insulting their families, perpetual investigations, and media demagoguery (whether liberal or conservative media) is undermining the one hope we have as a nation of remaining united. So Dobson is upset with Giuliani, over a vital matter (the killing of millions of unborn babies), and is considering abandoning the republican party, a political response to a social issue. That is the proper avenue for dissent. The left views this as some sinister plot, and portrays Dobson as some vile villain who would force women to bear deformed babies. Meanwhile, the issue at the heart of the matter, abortion, is lost in a mire of guilt by association with some political organization. (Meanwhile, Bush and Gore get a free pass for THEIR associations with Skull and Bones, [Bushes were members of it also] and CFR.) Vigorous political opposition is good. Hate is bad.
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Recently Nancy Pelosi, a nominal Roman Catholic, was asked about what she thought of the sacreligious poster which depicts the Last Supper as a sadomasochistic homosexual orgy.
