January 08, 2004

In Dean We Trust (Part 2)

Okay, I got a bit sidetracked on that last entry, but I want to cover another aspect of that article that further illustrates my problems with Dean and his associates.

Dean said he does not often turn to his faith when making policy decisions but cited the civil union bill as a time he did.

Classic. Let's use practical Christianity and only rely on faith when it's beneficial to our agenda. Howard Dean, you are many things, but you are definitely NOT a Christian. In any case, I am going to continue pointing out why.

"My view of Christianity . . . is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind," he told reporters Tuesday. "So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

WHAT. KIND. OF. STUPID. CRAP. IS. THAT?!

"Reach out to people who have been left behind?" What does that even mean, Howie? I guess that you're supposed to reach out to people who have been left behind, but you're not supposed to legitimize their sin just because it's beneficial to your personal agenda. That's not a religious aspect. It's politics disguised as religion. Somebody call Ann Coulter.

Earlier Tuesday, when he and the other candidates were asked at a debate whether religion has influenced any of their policy decisions, Dean was the only one not to respond.

In the interview Wednesday, Dean said, "I don't go through an inventory like that when making public policy decisions."

There's the key indicator that something's not right. He only talks about his "religion" when it'll help his image. When he's in an environment where it might portray him in a negative light, he's afraid to say anything. Again, Howard Dean is NOT a Christian.

Now, I want to touch on another interesting issue here. Why hasn't the ACLU come down on Dean for talking about religion in public? After all, he said that his faith influenced the decision to legalize civil unions. Wasn't faith the thing that caused people to oppose Bill Pryor? Here's an excerpt from an article about that:

“Bill Pryor has spent his political career trying to undermine church-state separation and showing contempt for religious pluralism,” said Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a group that is leading the opposition to Pryor’s nomination. This summer, Schumer himself said that Pryor’s beliefs “are so well known, so deeply held that it’s very hard to believe that they’re not going to influence him on the bench.”

Interesting. Clearly, many people think it's wrong for political figures to make decisions based on their religious convictions. Why hasn't Dean faced this same kind of opposition? Could it be that the issue is not religion itself, but what that religion says? I think it is.

Look at the facts. Howard Dean says that he legalized civil unions because of his Christian beliefs. I don't hear people yapping about "separation of church and state" and demanding that he step down.

However, people like Bill Pryor, who opposes abortion and believes the Ten Commandments can be displayed in public, are attacked because their beliefs are politically incorrect.

I want to write a longer piece about this, but I seem to be a bit sick at the moment, so I'll come back to it later.

Posted by CD on January 8, 2004 10:03 PM
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Off topic and maybe it's just me and my IE browser, but.....

Your sidebar is covering the right third of your posts. I can't read the ends of the sentences. Please fix this so that I can fully appreciate your Dean bashing. We luvses when the SIT basheses the Deanses, we does.[/gollum]

Posted by: Mike the Marine at January 8, 2004 11:07 PM

Actually, I was having that problem earlier, so I made a stylesheet adjustment and it was fine. It could be your browser, but I'm also using IE, and it's working for me. Try reducing the text size.

Actually, here's a question: Are the posts taking up the entire screen, or just a portion of it? That's the problem I was having.

If the sidebar and the posts are just overlapping, but they're still in the right place, you could resize the text.

If all else fails, click the permalink. There's no sidebar there.

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