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Sunday, February 25, 2007

The Problem Is Not Getting Them Out of Office

It's getting them out of the bureaucracy.

Alberto Gonzales is on the stump selling religious freedom. This in itself is enough to call for a barf bag:

Gonzales, in an address to SBC Executive Committee members during their Tuesday afternoon session, noted that he is charged by the president with “protecting and preserving not only the safety and security of all Americans, but also their rights, liberties and freedoms.”

If it were any other administration, I'd say "Fine." But this is the administration that's been not only courting the Christianists, but handing out religious pork though the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. This is also Alberto Gonzales, who never met a constitution he couldn't subvert.

I'd like to know how many of those investigations have been for denial of religious freedom to non-Christians. The ACLU's been doing a better job. Leave it to them.

(Thanks to AmericaBlog.)

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