Sea Change

The fact that this piece was written by Richard Mellon Scaife, funder of right-wing causes and candidates since the last Ice Age:

Now the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives -- urged on by conservatives opposed to abortion -- has voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

On this issue, Republicans and conservatives are dead wrong.

Abortions are a minor aspect of Planned Parenthood's mission to provide reproductive health care, education and other services to Americans, regardless of income.

More than 90 percent of its work focuses on preventing unintended pregnancies that almost inevitably lead to unwanted, neglected and abused children.

There's a realignment going on as the teabaggers unleash their full insanity. Look at this comment from Albert Mohler, president the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (via Box Turtle Bulletin):

"I think it's clear that something like same-sex marriage is going to become normalized, legalized and recognized in the culture. It's time for Christians to start thinking about how we're going to deal with that," he said Friday on the Focus on the Family radio program. . . .

Christians also need to start learning how to deal with the shifting culture and even face the fact that they may lose a few from their flock.

"I think we're going to be surprised and heartbroken over how many people are going to capitulate to the spirit of the age," he noted. "We're going to find now that there may not be as many of us as we thought."

Don't expect a major change in the Southern Baptists -- Mohler goes on to say that Christian must still defend marriage, at least in their own community -- and the homophobia is still there:

"It's interesting now that the world is so morally upside down that when we talk about marriage we have to make a distinction between natural marriage – heterosexual marriage – and this new thing that people are calling marriage," Mohler said.

My own reaction is that Mohler -- and the Christianists in general -- have a fairly primitive understanding of morality. Any "morality" that is intimately tied to plumbing doesn't have much going for it, and maybe that's why they're losing ground. What's amazing is that Mohler will actually admit it. But then, his living doesn't depend on gay-bashing.

We're seeing the cracks in the wall.