A Sponge by any other name...

Amongst this talk of Iraqi insurgency and racist Senators, I think we are missing a far, far greater threat to our country--a threat to the very ideals that built this great democracy. A threat to common decency, family values, national security... a threat so vile, so disgusting that it pains me to even type these words--SpongeBob SquarePants. If left unchecked, this scourge, this blight on the ass of humanity, will lead to the corruption of our children and the moral collapse of our nation. For those of you who don't know, SpongeBob has committed the heinous act of appearing in a music video promoting tolerance (along with Big Bird and Clifford, btw.) But not just tolerance of that cute little Asian boy, or the adorable African-American baby. No, we can handle that... this was tolerance of homosexuals.

In all seriousness, can we all agree that the real enemies of freedom and liberty in this country are the ultra-fundamental, ultra-judgmental, ultra-intolerant Christian extremists like James Dobson's Focus on the Family group? I mean, c'mon. SpongeBob?!? What bothers me more was something I heard on NPR the morning of the inauguration. A conservative Christian group, it might even have been Focus on the Family, was having a prayer breakfast before heading off to the parade. Before eating, they had a blessing in which the group's leader thanked God for letting the people of the United States choose Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior by electing George Bush. Now, I know that these guys don't speak for all Christians or for all evangelicals. But, they sure as hell speak for a lot of people. And their attitude really bothers me. This view that we elected Jesus as the Lord of the U.S.? I don't remember seeing His name on the ballot, quite frankly. Why, oh why, has religion become so intertwined with politics these days? Personally, I was offended by all the "God bless" this and that during the inauguration. And, I'm Catholic. I couldn't even imagine what it must have been like for a Muslim, a Hindu, or an atheist. This is the government that is supposed to represent us all? I acknowledge that the Founders instilled a certain measure of Judeo-Christian ethics into the Constitution, but they also made the state a secular entity.

Anyway, there's no real point to my rant. I'm just PO'd is all. Now back to your regularly scheduled program of partisan sniping.