Going NOwhere

THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL, a right wing christian organization which doubtless does exhaustive research on the topic of families, somehow, is threatening to pull its financial and political support of the republican party because the republican party is considering the possibility of accepting gay people as human beings, rather than sinful devils.

This highlights a simple, obvious fact; both right wing christianity and right wing political parties are so hopelessly out of step with the vast majority of modern americans that both are confronted with a huge choice: change with the times, or become extinct. Likely both will choose the latter.

With each passing year more and more people are accepting gay marriage as harmless, if not altogether desirable. Within ten or twenty years anyone who objects to gay marriage will quite probably be considered a bigot, a relic to be cast into history's proverbial dustbin.

And likewise, the christian faith, at least the extreme fundamentalist wing of it, is losing favor throught europe and north america, while fighting a losing battle to replace the losses with gains in latin america, asia, and africa.

The latest news is that the die are long cast; flash bulletin; those continents are already saturated with their own religions, religions other than christianity. There's nowhere for them to go, other than away.

A third political part in america consisting of a bizarre alliance between conservative christians, the national rifle association and militia types might have stood an outside chance in previous centuries, but their fourteenth century ideologies are, shall we say, a tad anachronistic.

May the dear lord bless and keep the extreme right wing, they know not what to do, and, ultimately, they've nowhere else to go.