I was watching Fox News from my hotel room the other day and Cavuto was on, pontificating about how "embarrassing" and "shameful" it was for Jimmy Carter to make the following remark about W:
"I worship the Prince of Peace, not the Prince of Pre-Emptive War."
Mr. Fox News was all up in arms about how an ex President should never disrespect a sitting President. But, aren't these the same people who so loudly defend any conservative speaker's "obligation" to speak his mind about his personal faith? If Mr. Carter's Baptist faith rightly calls him to witness against warmongering and the deaths of innocents isn't he as compelled to speak that which his faith compels as Sam Brownback is to denounce abortion? It DISGUSTS me that the Right uses religious means to justify political speech and political means to supress religious speech. Despite their rhetoric, the Conservatives have NO OVERRIDING BELIEF in religion's place in public life. It is just as interchangeable as any other "principle" that they can momentarily espouse to gain politcal advantage for their ends. The only thing they believe in is religious speech that happens to coincide with right wing policy.