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Entries for the ‘Zealotry’ Category

Elephants don’t wear crosses

…and donkeys shouldn’t be invited to church.
Today’s Denver Post has an article entitled “Recovery more likely in church than politics“, and that has never been truer than in the cases of Ted Haggard and Mark Foley. In Haggard’s case, the church will forgive him because that is fundamental to Christian faith, and while he [...]

On the “Party of Values”

The Republic of T., on the question of Republican treatment of gays:
The chickens are indeed coming home to roost. Let the chicken shit fall where it may; on the just and unjust, but mostly on the unjust.
Technorati Tags: Republic of T, glbt, family values

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Dr. James Dobson, Shame on You!

For those in the media who are making allusions between the Foley situation and the 1980s scandals of televangelists Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, Dr. James Dobson has a message:
“I’d like to remind everybody that Mark Foley was not an evangelical Christian, he was not a pastor, he was not an evangelist — he wasn’t [...]

Fox tries subliminal messaging

It seems that Republicans behind in the polls or behaving badly magically turn into Democrats.
Really, someone ought to be spanked for being so blatantly subliminal.

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Foley: We Will Make You Successful…

From the Washington Post:
Often implicit in the chats is an exchange of professional advancement in exchange for sex that plays on the allure of power that Foley used to entice one of the teenagers. Foley at one point promised to help him become the “stylish elite type” person the teenager said he wanted to be.”We [...]

Is this for real?

From the bowels of Republican revisionism, we find this gem from Mary Mostert:
The charge here is not that Mark Foley actually DID anything inappropriate to a minor. He, and supposedly the entire Republican Party are said to be in big trouble because, we are told, he sent “inappropriate e-mails to a minor?” So, what was [...]