More Far-Right Christian Insanity

It really is amazing how insane these Republican Christians are:

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Mr. Bush's failure to ask Congress to get to work on an amendment negated his other initiatives.

"If we throw out 6,000 years of human history that says marriage is between a man and a woman, then the rest of that doesn't matter," Mr. Perkins said.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

That quote better be taken out of context because otherwise it counts as the single most idiotic statement I've heard from a religious conservative so far this year. Take a moment and consider the implications of Mr. Perkins' words. Banning marriages between homosexuals is more important than doing what's right in Iraq, defending the country from terrorist attacks, what to do with the Patriot Act, the progress in Afghanistan, how foreign policy should be conducted, the tax cuts, economic growth, free trade, No Child Left Behind, the formulation of a new immigration policy, how improve health insurance, the Drug War, and all the billions of other dollars in programs, proposals, ideas, and changes Bush talked about.

No. Only restricting the definition of marriage to heterosexuals is of paramount, almost catastrophic concern.

Not that I go out of my way to find these things. I have enough things alternatively irritating and exasperting on my plate as it is. :)

UPDATE(1/26/2004 9:40pm)
Then again, this is detachment-from-reality on a whole different scale.

Posted by Drizzten at January 23, 2004 01:56 PM