Drooling and Crying

We never thought we'd say this, but it looks like it's time to stop reading Andrew Sullivan. Besides his public weeping at Benedict XVI's election, he is now implying that it is the Catholic Church's goal, with Rove and the Republicans, to take over politics and overturn the First Amendment. LINK. Excerpt:

The Pope once wrote about the seamless links between church and state in his native Bavaria: “I remember the joie de vivre of the local lads, firing their gun salutes – which was their way of welcoming Christ as a head of state, the head of state, the Lord of the world, present on their streets and in their village.”

Christ as head of state. It doesn't get more explicit than that.

He spends most of his piece talking about the need for a clear delineation between politics and religion.

Our response: Andy: Get some new stuff! That canard doesn't work any more. Most everyone has come to realize that the exclusion of God from politics is merely another form of excluding God altogether: from politics, from the public square, from relevancy. If we don't at least partially use our religious core when making decisions of public policy, some other core--and usually a fairly ugly one, like the lust for power--will dictate the entire decision-making process. We're not advocating a theocracy. We're advocating a political system that takes into account all persepctives, including the highest one: religion. No one wants to overthrow the First Amendment, but we won't let a bogus and modernist reading of the First Amendment continue to overthrow God.

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Doggone it. We were in a perfectly fine mood until we read Sullivan's piece. Now we're all worked up, and it's too early to crack open the bottle of Shiraz we bought yesterday. You owe us an apology, Sullivan!