08-06-2003, 04:50 AM
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Op ed: The Burning Bush
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Bush has been kissing Christian ass ever since he took the oath of office. There are 19 million voters whom Karl Rove considers "religious conservatives," but only 14 million of them voted in 2000, and the president's campaign strategists want to get them hopped up enough to vote in huge numbers in the unlikely event of a close election next year.
It's payback time, and just to make certain that the fundamentalists are plenty happy, Bush last week not only came down against gay marriage, but in a manic gesture of goodwill promised to "codify" marriage "one way or another" as something between only a man and a woman.
Bush began the road to card-carrying fundamentalism when he took a long walk in 1985 with Billy Graham around Walker's Point at his family's Kennebunkport compound. By the time he ruled Texas, Shrub was talking about Christ all the time. Going off the deep end, he said, "I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans."
Well, a divine plan is probably better than no plan at all, and over the past three years the president has done his level best to get one going. Look at what he's done:
As his very first act at the inauguration, Bush officially designated the day as the National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving. Then he made the Bible-thumpin' evangelical John Ashcroft attorney general.
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You can find the rest of the article at The Village Voice
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