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from Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 14:56 (Agree/Disagree?) update on story: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16418987-23109,00.html (reply to this comment)

from Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 14:59 (Agree/Disagree?) Christian Assasins, that's about as positive as Christian child abusers. Here's a good cartoon: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/luckovich/index.html (reply to this comment)

From Sabine Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 17:07 (Agree/Disagree?) Onward Christian Assassins / Lead us not to war / With the anthrax virus / Knock down Satan's door! / Christ, the covert agent / plots a lightning strike / Hiding in the shadows, He avoids a fight! To be sung at the inauguration of President Condoleeza Rice. You can hear the inspiring music at: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/onwardcs.htm (reply to this comment)

from Nick Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 09:50 (Agree/Disagree?) While I do agree that comments like that do nothing for the image of America, I am just thankful that they came from a crackpot like him and not from an elected official that could be misconstrued as speaking for America. I really hate all those Christian evangelist ass hats! I just can't believe that people actually watch his show and somehow feel its the right thing to do to send 10% of their meager wage so that he can keep his 1/2 mill salary going. (reply to this comment)

From lumpen proletariat Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 13:11 (Agree/Disagree?) Theocrats like Roberston have a very loyal following that goes out to the polls to elect patrician elites like Bush & Cheney to speak for America. (They don't talk publically about assassinations; they keep their sabre-rattling remarks to talk of "crusades" against the axis of evil.) I live in a city where a charistmatic evangelical preacher can easily mobilize his congregation of 10,000 through his "Center for Moral Clarity" around a host of social issues, including the pressing need to uphold the sanctity of marriage through an amendments to the state's constitution. Among the Center's stated goals: Register just under a half-million new voters while leading 25% of them to Jesus at revival/crusade/get-out the vote rallies. Strategies: Organize close to 1,000 socially conservative "Patriot Pastors" to register voters all over the state. My pet theory about this disturbing trend in American society is that it represents the last gasp of the white, anglo-saxon protestant patriarchy. Within a matter of a few short decades, these "ass hats" will be a demographic minority. They're winning some important battles for political power at the present time, but in the long run, they'll be swept aside by the population tide of brown and black people. Yeah, they can limit access to safe, legal abortions now so that white females (the women who typically terminate their pregancies) can keep up (or stay down) with the Jeffersons and Gonzales, but this reactionary tactic won't change the emergence of a new political economy that marginalizes the uneducated, White Christian minority who believe "Intelligent Design" has something to do with science. (reply to this comment)