RELIGIOUS VALUES FIND LIBERALS PUZZLED

RENEW AMERICA.US ^ | NOVEMBER 10, 2004 | ISAIAH Z. STERRETT

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HERE'S THE SCOOP on Democrats and their current talking-points: all of this idiotic liberal chatter about "values," "evangelicals," and the "religious right" is based on Democrats' long-standing plan to pack the Supreme Court. Since their guy can't reside in the White House, Democrats are going to do everything they can to stop President Bush from placing legitimate judges on the High Court. Their new strategy is to darkly label their opponents "religious."

It's simply indisputable that most Americans believe in God. Even Dennis Kucinich would have to admit it. In 2000, when asked to identify his favorite philosopher, Bush named Jesus Christ. He did not name Jocelyn Elders. This may have something to do with the nearly 60 million popular votes he just garnered.

After quickly recovering from the shock of Bush's resounding victory, Democrats had to come up with a way to spin the race in Kerry's favor — obviously a challenge, since Kerry lost. They decided to blame it on the most innocent, illustratively moral group in America: churchgoing conservatives. "[T]hanks to a heavy turnout by evangelical Christians," wrote the completely unglued Paul Krugman, "Mr. Bush has four more years to advance that radical agenda."

(To liberals, a "radical agenda" includes simplifying the tax system, keeping the abortion rate low, and putting judges on the bench who have actually read the Constitution. Also defeating terrorism.)

The New York Times, Krugman's employer, also thinks it's best to declare Christians responsible for Bush's victory. According to an article in the hitherto unknown "Faith Groups" series, "religious trends," a "faith coalition," and "white born-again or evangelical Christians" fueled Bush's win.

It wasn't Bush's superior policies that won him the White House, it was the Jesus-freak demographic.

Liberals invariably blame religious Americans for everything they don't like. Just days before the election, Chris Heinz, son of Teresa, said that the "Israel lobby" had undue influence in American politics. Israel, he said, is treated like "the 51st state, sort of a swing state." Then he called Bush a "cokehead."

At very least, Heinz's statement was a testament to liberal hypocrisy. His man Kerry — supporter of a "global test" for America's defenses — spent millions of dollars trying to convince Americans that we needed "the world" to support us in the War on Terror. But then, on the eve of Election Day, he openly denounced what is arguably a vital part of "the world": Israel. Heinz did everything short of demand that all Jews leave the country.

In response, Florida, which boasts a Jewish population of well over 600,000, went for Bush. That showed Chris Heinz. (Approximately 149,000 Jewish Americans live in Ohio; over 81,000 live in Arizona; 77,000 live in Nevada; and 66,000 make their homes in Virginia. All of these states chose Bush over Chris Heinz's candidate.)

According to another New York Times genius, those Jews — and their Christian and Muslim brethren — need to learn to keep their faith "under control." See this space in four years for an update on the number of Americans who take that advice.

All the "experts" are arguing that Bush won because of his opposition to same-sex marriage. Those eleven ballot measures regarding same-sex marriage, they say, brought out the "religious right," which propelled Bush to victory. This is a nice theory, but it's nonsense. Bush won because he thinks we ought to crush every terrorist in the universe with a tank, or — better yet — with the healing power of democracy. This was in sharp contradistinction to Bush's opponent, who favored sending the terrorists boxed croissants.

The gay-marriage/evangelical argument is an overt effort to tie homophobia to Christianity, which liberals have been attempting since approximately the beginning of time. Don't let it fool you. This election was a referendum on Bush's War on Terror and Kerry's globalism. On November 2, Americans vowed to win the fight against the barbarians — and by "barbarians" they meant "terrorists," not "those guys with the Cher poster in their window."

We must learn to accept the evident fact that Democrats will not see their stunning losses in 2004 as a wake-up call. Rather, they'll whine about it. Unwilling to admit that African-Americans are slowly turning from blue to red, Democrats have turned to insane, faith-based discrimination. Look for "Blame the Evangelicals" to show up on bumper stickers across the country.

Isaiah Z. Sterrett is a Lifetime Member of the California Junior Scholarship Federation, Sustaining Member of the Republican National Committee, and Basic Member of the American Conservative Union. He writes a weekly political column from his home in northern California.

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