"Katrina has reminded us that Christian morality should be about responding to the wretched and loving the unlovable—not about other people’s sex lives."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9342324/site/newsweek/This is a really good, must read article... It is a very succinct piece about how right wing fundies have made it ok to turn their backs on the poor, especially the victims of Katrina. It bashes the Pugs and gives some kicks to the Republican-lite Dems, too...
A 4 paragraph taste:
"We as a nation—a proudly, increasingly loudly Christian nation—have somehow convinced ourselves that the selfish choice is usually the moral one, too. (What a deal!) You know how this works: It's wrong to help poor people because "handouts'' reward dependency and thus hurt more than they help. So, do the right thing—that is, walk right on by—and by all means hang on to your hard-earned cash.
Thus do we deny the working poor a living wage, resent welfare recipients expected to live on a few hundred dollars a month, object to the whopping .16 percent of our GNP that goes to foreign aid—and still manage to feel virtuous about all of the above."
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(She gets some good jabs in at the Dems too...)
"But have Democrats loudly decried the inhumanity—or even the hidden, deferred costs of the Bush cuts in services to the most vulnerable among the already born? Heavens, no, with a handful of exceptions, such as former vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, who spoke every single day of his campaign—and ever since—about our responsibilities toward those struggling just to get by in the "other America.''
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"Immediately after the disaster, Bush quickly intervened—to make it possible for refiners to produce dirtier gasoline. He has since zapped working people on the Gulf Coast all over again by suspending the 1931 law that requires employers to pay the prevailing wage to workers on all federally financed projects."
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