Finally

Someone has said it on the record. Let’s give credit to Republican Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut for telling it like it is. He is quoted in the New York Times as saying, “This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy.” He is, of course, talking about the recent Congressional vote to move the Terri Schiavo case to the federal-level courts. The conservatives who are pushing for her to be kept alive are merely using her as a pawn to further their own agenda. Representative Shays also said, “My party is demonstrating that they are for states' rights unless they don't like what states are doing.” These people are not for states’ rights, or individual rights at all. They want to get their way. End of story. And they will lie, distort, and mislead on any number of levels to get their way. The hypocrisy boggles the mind.

These are the people who decry “judicial activism” except when it’s in their interest.

These are the people who worship that “sacred marriage bond” until a legal spouse makes a decision they don’t like.

These are the people who scream “let him fry,” furthering a supposedly hated “culture of death.”

Mr. Shays speaks volumes of wisdom in the above quotes. It’s about time these right-wing zealots are called on their hypocrisy by a fellow conservative.

Finally.