There is a God!

In what has to be one of the most boringly officious New York Times articles of all time, David Kirkpatrick discusses the unhappiness of big league Christian conservatives at a meeting of the National Council for Public Policy, an umbrella group for the Christian right.

Founded by Rev. Tim LaHaye, the nut case behind the Left Behind series, the National Council for Public Policy was attended by James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Paul Weyrich, and other gunslingers and hate-mongers whose agenda is to reduce the federal government back to the nineteenth century levels, repeal reproductive rights of women once and for all, leverage their bigotry against gay people into constitutional amendments, put 11 million illegal immigrants in jail, and launch endless new wars without paying a cent in new taxes.

Hoping to continue using cancer as a weapon against sex among church-going girls, the Christian right also opposes a vaccine to innoculate girls against cervical cancer.

Such great humanitarians!

I don't think it's exaggerating to say that the leaders attending the National Council for Public Policy have done more harm to the United States than any convention of drug kingpins.

The problem for the National Council for Public Policy is that they don't see a candidate that the Christian Right can wholeheartedly support in 2008. John McCain thinks they're intolerant bigots (wonder why!). Rudy Giuliani has been married three times. Mitt Romney panders to liberals as well as conservatives. You would think that a Christian conservative like Sam Brownback would find support at this kind of meeting, but observers claimed that Brownback touched "only briefly on the threat of Islamic terrorists." Neither Mike Huckabee nor Duncan Hunter satisfied either.

The only speaker who provided full satisfaction for the gathered leaders of the Christian Right was the Pennsylvania politician Rick Santorum.

Fortunately however, Pennsylvania voters addressed the "Santorum threat" when they defeated him by 19 points last November.

There is a God!