Bigotry: Out in the Open

by mcjoan

And then you have Katherine Harris:
"If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong."

When did this kind of public speech and action become ok again? Lou Dobbs bashes immigrants every day on CNN. O'Reilly is O'Reilly. The GOP is unleashing it's ugliness, and even so-called Democrats like Joe Lieberman use race-baiting as a campaign tactic.

Is it fear? Desparation? Arrogance? I'd like to think it's desparation, the GOP realizing it's got slight toe-hold on power and throwing everything they've got into keeping their base fearful and mobilized. But whatever the cause, the result is that the mask has been ripped off of a very ugly side to American politics. I hope the better angels of our natures prevail in November.