Put Up
By Mitch Berg
I’m a white, Christian, straight male. According to current left-wing victomology theory, that means that’s all I’ll vote for.
In response, I’ve said for years that if a white, Chrsitian, straight liberal male were to face off in an election against a conservative black Taoist lesbian or a pro-growth, limited-government Uzbek Moslem, I’d vote for either conservative in a heartbeat; I’m electing a politician to represent my political beliefs, not a human security blanket for my social identity.
If I lived in Queens, I’d have been able to test that theory on Tuesday:
Republican Dan Halloran won the race New York City Council in Queens yesterday, despite a bunch of last minute articles focused on the fact that he practices Theodism, which involves Norse gods like Odin and Freyr. Says Halloran:
It is our hope to reconstruct the pre-Christian religion of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European peoples, within a cultural framework and community environment.
Score one for tolerance. Sure, it’s just the city council. And sure, it’s New York. But this guy is a full-on Pagan, for Odin’s sake, and he just got elected to a pretty important public office. As a Republican.
That’s because when push come sot shove, Republicans in general are more tolerant.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
This would be at odds with the recent events relating to the New York District 23 Congressional race. There seems to be a distinct schism in the Republican party with the more extreme being intolerant of the more moderate / centrist, to the point of purging.
The other things that come to mind with this alleged tolerance of paganism would be included in my recent article on the minister in the religious right who asserted that all Halloween candy was prayed over by witches so that a time-released curse would be loosed on anyone who participated in Halloween trick or treat – or even just bought candy at this time of year. Don’t get me started on what was said about pumpkin carving, etc.
Or people like you friend Michele Bachmann who in her political beginnings is said to have opposed the showing of the Disney animation feature Aladdin because it was promoting paganism, while at the same time is supposed to have tried to get creationism taught, along with education in Christian principle – or at least, her interpretation of them.
I’m seeing more a lack of choice in the candidates the Republicans have to run, then the party embracing tolerance and a culture of inclusion. Not a problem unique to Republicans; the elections this week illustrated the Dems can come up with some pretty crummy candidates on occasion as well.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Don’t let the Sons of Liberty know you’d vote for a non-Christian, Mitch.
And hopefully the councilman isn’t part of the white-supremacist culture that often surrounds northern neo-paganism.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
DiscoStoo,
I’d actually love to pose them that question; Christian pro-choice high-tax anti-RKBA liberal vs. conservative pro-life pro-prosperity atheist; who to choose?
DG:
This would be at odds with the recent events relating to the New York District 23 Congressional race.
Nonsense. Hoffman and our pagan friend from Queens are limited-government pro-growth conservatives to one degree or another.
There seems to be a distinct schism in the Republican party with the more extreme being intolerant of the more moderate / centrist, to the point of purging.
Stuff and nonsense. Within the context of the GOP – the party whose stated mission is smaller/limited government, the free market, national security, law and order and low taxes – Hoffman is the mainstream. People like Scozzafava, Dave Durenberger, Arne Carlson, Chuck Hegel, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are the extreme outliers.
So if you have a party that stands for liberty, prosperity, growth, family and limited government, why should we be “tolerant” of candidates who reject those very principles? You (pl) call it “purging”; we call it being honest.
The other things that come to mind with this alleged tolerance of paganism would be included in my recent article on the minister in the religious right who asserted that all Halloween candy was prayed over by witches so that a time-released curse would be loosed on anyone who participated in Halloween trick or treat – or even just bought candy at this time of year. Don’t get me started on what was said about pumpkin carving, etc.
Ah. And this anonymous “Minister in the religious right” is whom? He is an elected official from where? He was precisely what influence on the GOP’s platform?
Or people like you friend Michele Bachmann who in her political beginnings is said to have opposed the showing of the Disney animation feature Aladdin because it was promoting paganism, while at the same time is supposed to have tried to get creationism taught, along with education in Christian principle – or at least, her interpretation of them.
Be careful about things Rep. Bachmann “is said to” have done; she’s the target of more half-witted slander than anypolitician in America, Sarah Palin included. She was “said to” have spied through the bushes on a pro-gay rally at the Capitol; never mind that the guy standing by her in the supposed photo, the Sergeant at Arms, debunked the story years ago.
But please feel free to find some corroboration of what she’s “said to have done”. Where did she oppose showing Aladdin? How did she manifest this opinion, and what actual enforcement power was behind it?
Did she want Creationism taught instead of the other theories, or merely brought up as an alternative theory? Was it Creationism in its absolute literal form, or more of an “Intelligent Design” type of notion that science and an allegorical reading of Genesis aren’t in any way in conflict (which scares the piss out of wahabbi atheists).
I’m seeing more a lack of choice in the candidates the Republicans have to run, then the party embracing tolerance and a culture of inclusion.
And I”ve noticed a lot of Democrats bemoaning the fact that the mainstream of the GOP is tired of sharing a party with people who are indistinguishable from Democrats.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
“Ah. And this anonymous “Minister in the religious right” is whom? He is an elected official from where? He was precisely what influence on the GOP’s platform?”
Answer: He is DG’s boogieman. (along with Bachmann)
Bwwwwwaaaaaaahahahahahahaha
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*fade to scene… A Wonderful Life*
Teacher says, every time Bachmann is mentioned a liberal pees its pants.