Pastor Lane and Our Humorous Right Wing Christian Freak Show

THE EXTREME CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE reaction to legalized gay marriage is going to be quite a show. Get the pop corn ready, and settle in for the good time laughter. What a hoot, what fun. "The fools would be humorous, were they not in such deadly earnest", a wise man once said, but this is the exception. Though America's Christian right wing is indeed in deadly earnest, they'll be plenty humorous. Already are. Enter David lane, a sixty year old social conservative Christian fanatic - you know the type - who wants to remake America in his own, bizarre image, with what he calls the "Renew America" project. The organization's purpose is to mobilize a vast army of conservative ministers and put a conservative republican in the White House in 2016. Good luck with that; America is moving to the left, as it inexorably does. Gay marriage and Obamacare are here to stay. These people have the crazy notion that America was founded as a "Biblically based Christian nation", when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison...non christians all, and the list goes on. And you could look it up, as Casey Stengel often said. America was founded, in point of fact, as a nation based on enlightenment principles, by people who spent more time, much more time, reading Locke, Hume, and Voltaire than the Bible, which thomas Jefferson described as "the rantings of a lunatic". Our founders tended to be "deists"; people who believed in God, but not the christian God. They tended to think that Jesus was just a regular guy, albeit a very cool one. Not a superhuman resurrectee. Our founders were intellectuals, scientists, and revolutionaries, not conservative Bible readers. Pastor Lane himself used to be quite a party animal, it seems. He's my age, and I wonder; where did he go wrong? Why did he give up the good hedonistic life for some barbaric religion in which God sacrifices his own son in a bloody spectacle, and slavery is accepted, along with parental infanticide and mass murder? A real monster, that Christian deity. Best guess is that pastor Lane opposes all social welfare programs, opposes handing out free money to the poor, as, it seems, all conservative Christians do. Never mind that Jesus was a socialist, who admonished us all to render unto Caesar, and to go thy, sell whatsoever, thou hast, and to give unto the poor. when it comes to redistribution of wealth, Jesus was hard core. He wanted to get it done, now, and stop talking about it, or opposing it. The wailing and teeth gnashing among America's Christian conservatives will be, as always, fun to watch. One can only pity them for their embrace of cruelty and barbarity.