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The Politicized Pulpit

Topeka Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 12:09 PM
"yet these days we should acknowledge, sadly, that one person's reliable source is another's propaganda." --- Yes, when one person wants my children to pay for their "lifestyle" 38000 feet - and I object - obviously I'm a racist, a bigot and a fill in the blank a phobe - and my "lifestyle" at an altitude of "two doors down from your welfare recipient thugs" is TOO MUCH ! THIS ISN'T PROPAGANDA - IT'S OUR LIVES!!! OUR CHILDREN!!! - THE VICTIMS I SEE ON MY STREETS!! - THE VICTIMS IN MY OFFICE!! - THE VICTIMS IN MY COLLEAGUES' OFFICES - THANKS TO BLOODTHIRSTY, BLOOD-SUCKING PARASITES!!!!! NO ONE WRITES LINES LIKE THIS! NOT WHEN THE DAMNED BEASTS ARE AT THE DOOR!!

Tom DeLay, the former House majority whip and leader, wasn't called "The Hammer" for nothing. In recent months he's been the best book publicist an author could want, asking me repeatedly to read his friend Norm Mason's The Political Imperative: An Assignment from God (Jebaire, 2011). I finally did, and will argue that its analysis is solid but its final prescription is wrong.

Mason, former chairman of the Texas Christian Coalition, rightly emphasizes the clearest current issue, abortion, and the importance of Christians fighting it politically as well as in other ways. He rightly notes that when an airplane seems headed...

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