Christian Leftist

Lou Dobbs has been hitting the crack pipe again.

“Isn’t the church all about saving souls? … We already have enough fools running around with their social programs, social engineering…”

Um, Lou? It’s called SOCIAL JUSTICE. You know — feeding the poor, healing the sick, fighting for the oppressed, like a certain Nazarene carpenter did.

Just because not all of us buy into every piece of jingoistic claptrap that spews from your mouth doesn’t mean that churches apart from the fundamentalist, bigoted, close-minded, gossiping congregations don’t exist.

Just for tonights extra-special hothead diatribe, I’m going to give you a present. Not, it’s not a cookie. It’s your own sub-category. Now whenever you say something stupid, you’ll be able to look it up under ‘national media,’ and it will be right there! Isn’t that special?

In the meantime, please refrain from speculating on people’s motives for believing in God. Mine are clearly not the same as yours. Kthnxbai.

Oh, will the trail of underqualified, overly righteous, neo-conservative appointees from Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell’s colleges who commit political suicide never end?

As for Randall Tobias, the Boston Globe article that describes his past controversial positions on AIDS treatment programs really says it all in the first sentence:

“Randall L. Tobias , the Bush administration official responsible for foreign assistance who resigned late Friday because of his use of an escort service allegedly involved in prostitution, was ridiculed as a hypocrite yesterday because he supported US policies that forced overseas organizations not to help prostitutes.”

This is what happens when people try to play the moral police. Whatever happened to loving the least of one’s brethren? People are going to have sex whether you think it’s right for them to do so or not. Why did the Bush administration assume that they themselves were infallible pillars of morality?

I really couldn’t care less if Tobias received ‘massages’ in a house not his own from the fingers of a woman not his wife, or what specific types of therapy those massages entailed. That’s his problem and God’s. It probably throws his personal character into doubt, but the fact is that as long as he didn’t use government property to do it, it’s solicitation at worst, because morals aren’t the same as ethics.

At least, they’re not supposed to be. Now, because Tobias has injected his personal religious beliefs (and those of the Bush administration) into policy, he has made himself look like a dogmatic imbecile and a fraud. Deservedly so, in my opinion, but the point remains that no one can or should judge another’s private sex life. Abstinence education is an oxymoron because it presumes that using unfounded conclusions from biased think tanks to tell people to control their biological urges is more sensible than teachingthem how to use condoms.