Yeah, that's right. It is time for a rant. Couple of stories today caught my eye and made me angry about the Repubs and their conservative Christian handlers (or is that the other way around?). First, on NPR, a story about the office that is supposed to protect whistleblowers in our government. You know. Those people who are brave enough to step forward and say that there is waste or ineffeciancy or corruption? Well, the office that oversees that is run by, shock, a Bush appointee who has clamped down on whistleblowing. That's right, the agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers is being charged with punishing whistleblowers. Oh, and this same Bush appointee scrubbed their website of any reference to sexual orientation. Come on! You guys may think that gays are going to hell, but do you really support them being discriminated against openly? Might want to reread that Bible thing.
Before I move on to the next story, let's recap. Republicans and Conservative Christians stand for the following:
1) helping the rich
2) screwing the environment (the more mercury in women's bodies, the better!)
3) screwing the poor (see number one) with harsher bankruptcy policies, no minimum wage increase, more uninsured Americans--yeah, that is right there in the Bible where Jesus lashed out at the poor people for not working hard enough and complimented the rich. Wait, that isn't in the Bible at all!
4) hampering government cleanup efforts
Ok, now on to rant part 2.1. Listening to local radio here in OK, there is a movement afoot to put a moritorium on the death penalty until we can review it. Oklahoma is number 2 in executions (behind Compassionate Conservative Christian George W. Bush's Texas) and some people recognize that we MIGHT be executing THE INNOCENT!
Oklahoma is a big Christian state, right? Churches on every fucking corner. Can't drive anywhere without seeing more and more churches? Yet, do we see God's people standing up to say that we should, at the very least, investigate this death penalty machine? Nope. Way to go. Conservative Christians are once again convincing me that they don't give a shit about the poor, criminals or the environment.
And here is an irony I can't quite escape. Conservatives in general, and this is mimicked in the Christian community as far as I hear, HATE government and think it is inefficient and corrupt. Yet when this inefficient and corrupt government KILLS people, they think it is perfect. Please to explain this?
My only explanation is to say that Conservative Christians and Conservatives like killing people more than they hate government. Of course, when that same government kills people in Waco or Ruby Ridge it is wrong, so it must be that they care very little for the poor and the non-white who so often end up in our Capital Punishment system. Just as Jesus mocked the poor and colored of his day, and berated them to act more like the rich. Jesus was famously fond of the death penalty and said that those behind it were well-intentioned and moral people.
Wait a minute.....that isn't what he said at all? When did Jerry Falwell and James Dobson rewrite the Bible?
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