Here's wishing them all the success in the world:
"A pro-family activist from Virginia says voters who put Republicans in office should demand that politicians not employ key personnel who don't hold the conservative views that the party promotes. That activist says the Capitol Hill office of Virginia Senator George Allen is a good example. Senator Allen is head of the Republican Senatorial Committee and was a key figure in the GOP's big victories in November. But Joe Glover, president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network, says something is very wrong. Glover says homosexual publications have outed at least six members of the senator's office as homosexuals. He says one homosexual activist even went so far as to say Allen had the 'gayest office on Capitol Hill.' Pro-family conservatives, he says, need to make sure Senator Allen hears their voices.
From Salon.com's Right Hook
The Christian right is utterly terrifying to me, and so I'm reticent to even suggest such a thing, but I'm almost pleased that they're turning their fire on Republicans. It would be nice if the Republicans they've just hired had to undergo the same social scruitiny as the rest of us. So good; let the witchhunts begin in the offices of Republican legislators everywhere.
A good friend of mine is the president of a decent-sized company here in Minnesota. He's one of these Republicans who don't really care much about the Christian right, although he's glad that they won the election for him and his tax cuts. After the election, he and I sat down to talk and he asked: "Do you really think that these values voters are going to have a lot of power?"
"Yeah," I said, "I think they will. They're going to demand it because they feel they delivered your guy a 3 million vote victory."
"That's not good. I mean, what is this that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat? Or gay? I think they're going to destroy the party."
My friend's a good guy, and he was genuinely concerned. He should be.
Comments