Nobody asked me, but..........

Nobody asked me, but.... does anyone see the similarities
in the Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, and
our own Sister Lucy foaming-at-the-mouth fervor Evangelical
types who claim to be so high and mighty with all the answers
and yet have suffered such personal shortcomings in their own lives?

Nobody asked me, but.....do you see the hypocrisy in Ms. Tedrick
ranting about Obama and the "left" with their programs for health
care and free lunches for kids and yet she enjoys the EXACT same
tax free ride with her "Christian" school and church?


Nobody asked me, but.... do you sometimes wonder about the IQ
of some of these types who tell us how to interpret our Bibles,
who we should vote for, and how we should believe?

Nobody asked me, but...who scares you more? The Ted Haggards of
the world who while leading a 14,000 member church and supporting
the drive to put "Same-Sex Marriage Amendments" on several states
ballots, was having sex with male prostitutes, buying meth, and
improperly touching young male members of his OWN New Life church
- or the clergymen who preach to love one another and to show
compassion to one another?

Nobody asked me, but...are you as sick as I am of reading hate in
the "religious" column of our weekly paper? Do we really need or
want a fanatic zealot telling us how to believe? I alternate
between feeling disgust and pity for the columnist.

Finally, this blog post was precipitated by me reading an article
about Ted Haggard today. It seems Mr. Haggard is making the
rounds again and asking for forgiveness. Now, let's get this
straight. Is this the same Ted Haggard that spouted the evils
of allowing same sex marriages and yet was having dozens of
those exact same sex relations? You remember good old Ted.
He was responsible for having seven states put the Same
Sex Amendment on their ballots. (Including that forward-thinking
adjoining state, Tennessee, who chose to elect the "awe-shucks"
right-wing EXTREME conservative hillbilly, Bob Corker.) I hope all
who supported the hate legislation in Tennessee that Haggard
promoted are proud. And that the fervor that brought you to the
polls brought you the brightest star in the Senate -- Bob Corker.
Who needs Harold Ford Jr., currently the head of the Democratic
Leadership Council, former contender for Speaker of the House,
rising star on the National scene, and a sought-after MSNBC
analyst for his savvy insights into National affairs. We're better
off with the invisible, "awe-shucks" representation that Tennessee
right-wing evangelicals deserve. I remember seeing Harold Ford Jr.
on the cover of Time Magazine, touted as the next truly smart,
up-and-coming politician. Next thing you know, the good old
church-going Tennessee hillbillies were sending in their
contributions to Corker to run ads against Harold Ford Jr. that
were called some of the most vile and politically repulsive ads
ever to be broadcast during a political campaign and that's
saying a lot! Why vote for a highly intelligent Harold Ford Jr.
when you could have Bob Corker instead?

Nobody asked me, but.......no wonder our country is in the
shape it is in. We actually voted for and elected a bumbling
idiot like George Bush and let him completely bankrupt our
country!