The Christian Right Needs to Get a Life

The war in Iraq is a quagmire and causing global chaos, inflationary pressures and Congressional spending threaten the US economy, Harry Connick got to Katrina victims faster than did FEMA, Iran wants to nuke Israel and the US government is undertaking unprecedented spying on its own citizens. There are plenty of reasons to be mad as hell at the Bush administration and its bungling. Yet none of those things bother the Christian right. But

Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support in the midterm elections unless Congress does more to oppose same-sex marriage, obscenity and abortion.

I guess a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a partial birth abortion ban and successfully nominating two anti-abortion Supreme Court justices is not enough. Better give the FCC the authority to regulate HBO. The full NY Times article here.

This sort of single-issue myopia is what has enabled most of the problems mentioned in my first sentence, as religious zealots give the Bush administration a pass on everything else so long as it forwards their narrow agenda. What Would Jesus Do? I have read the New Testament many times and don't remember him mentioning gay marriage, obscenity or abortion. But I am sure he would have thrown Tom DeLay out of the temple.