“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian,” Republican Tea Party (GOTP) aspirant Reverend Ricky Perry says in the opening of his latest attack ad; “But you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
“As president, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion. And I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.”
Now, how exactly has the lifting of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell affected kids ability to “openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school”? It hasn’t, but Reverend Ricky figures he’ll kill as many angry birds as possible with this one stone.
Facts are kids can celebrate Christmas in school – we attended a band concert just this week at our daughter’s high school where they played numerous Christmas songs and even a Hanukah song; additionally kids can openly pray all they want too in school, they just can’t have teachers or coaches, as a state employee, initiate it. As a high school football coach our athletes opened and closed each game with prayer; the students led the prayers and frequently invited their opponents to join them.
Exactly when and how has the President initiated or conducted a war on religion? Oh wait, yeah, he hasn’t, we’re just making it up as we go along – like claiming the Obama White House called its Christmas trees holiday trees when it hadn’t, and that it was actually the Bush White House which had done that.
Perry is, as many uber-conservatives in America today are, ignorant of what is and what is not factual. He’s playing to the lowest common denominator in the Tea Party dominated GOTP and he’s still not going to get jacks worth of votes for his efforts. His campaign’s been over almost from the get go, and it’s not hard to see why; he’s just your typical ignorant, arrogant, homophobic, racist white bread Christian southern politician. Time to pack it in and go home citizens, there’s nothing to see here; nothing of substance will ever be offered.
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