SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, DAMN IT!!!!

Brother Hinderaker had to go and inflict this blurb on my psyche yesterday:

"This morning Ted Kennedy, of all people, preached a sermon at the Airy Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia in which, according to the Associated Press, he 'urged the congregation to vote for Kerry.'"

Well, of course he did. What better place to pour the Massachusetts Manatee into than a black church pulpit? The pulpit itself could hold him up, and they doublessly hollowed out the inside and installed a mini-still, or perhaps a keg if he could get the paritioners to pass around an extra collection plate to cover the deposit on it.

Do yourself a favor and avoid looking at the accompanying AP photograph. As left-wing hypocrisy goes, it's an obscenity.

This is worse:

"Mount Hermon's pastor, the Reverend John F. White [I swear I'm not making that up], promised to lead a pilgrimage to the polls next Sunday after services, and compared Mr. Kerry to Moses leading the children of Israel to the promised land.

"For the last four years we've been living in the wilderness," he shouted from the pulpit, Mr. Kerry seated by his side. "There is one who can divide the Red Sea for us and we can cross over on dry ground. You've got a vote in your hand - use it on Election Day, use it and be liberated and be set free." [my emphasis]

High on George Bush's second-term agenda should be the revocation of the tax-exempt status of every last church in which any Democrat befouled the pulpit with blatant politicking that, were any Republican to do it, donks would bellow to high heaven it was "unconstitutional."

No, I'm not kidding. What I am is pissed. I'm sick and tired of the Left's one-way streets, and on nothing more than their Christophobic bigotry that seeks to all but herd evangelicals into cattle cars while at the same time turning black churches into political campaign halls.

Much has been made about Republicans "controlling" the elective branches of government. But that control is meaningless unless Republicans also use that power to change society and governing institutions to their liking, and that includes doing what's necessary to entrench themselves in a ruling hegemony that will last at least as long as the Democrats' dynasty did. And part of that is taking away or minimizing to the greatest extent possible any advantage or edge that the Democrats possess.

In this particular context, that means either openly politicking in evangelical churches, along with de-liberalizing the federal bench and re-Christianizing the public square, or applying the same restrinctions across the board.

I'd prefer the former, personally. But I wouldn't shrink from the latter if need be.

This campaign has demonstrated that the Demofascists have moved way, way beyond "hardball." If Republicans don't match them, continuing to naively trust in "the rules" and "the law" and "the system" to assure a "level playing field," their political doom is inevitable regardless of the quality of their candidates, organizations, and message.

Once again, I am serious. As a heart attack.

Leo Durocher once said that "nice guys finish last." A week from now a nice guy and Republican is going to win. My advice? Have your DVD burners and TIVOs running. Because it will be the last time you ever see that combination again.