Did you watch the GOP Prom last night? A clutch of Republican fulminators clustered in an airplane hangar at the Ronald Reagan Library to engage in some branding exercises before cameras. Watching Santorum, Huckabee, Jindal, and all the rest gurgle about Iran and immigration and Obama made it clear why so many people support Donald Trump: all of the candidates are insufferable, so why not throw your support behind a guy who clearly annoys them?
But my head was truly sent spinning by the repeated assertions that Christianity has been criminalized, and anyone resisting gay marriage at this point is like a modern Martin Luther King Jr. Also, being asked to do your job is equivalent to being shot to death.
“Right now the biggest discrimination going on is against Christian business owners and individuals who believe in traditional marriage,” said Bobby Jindal, on the same day that a Muslim kid was arrested for bringing a clock to school.
“How many bakers, how many florists, how many pastors, how many clerks are we going to throw in jail?” asked Rick Santorum. Well so far there’s only been one person sent to jail, and it was for defying a court order to do her job, so there’s your answer.
Rick wasn’t finished there. “Sixteen years ago, this country was inspired by a young woman who faced a gunman at Columbine, and she was challenged about her faith, and she refused to deny God,” he said, referring to a never-confirmed story that one of the school shooting victims was killed after affirming her faith. “Today, someone who refuses to defy a judge’s unconstitutional verdict is ridiculed and criticized.”
Yes. Good job Rick. You’re absolutely right. Criticizing Kim Davis for refusing to obey a court order is exactly the same as murder. Totally equivalent. Do you have an other outrageous comparisons to make?
“Martin Luther King wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail,” continued the idiot, “and he said in that letter there are just laws and unjust laws. And we have no obligation to condone and accept unjust laws.”
Well, that takes just a bit of nerve. Does Rick really not see that he’s the spiritual successor to George Wallace, not Martin Luther King? The parallels could not be more clear. Wallace rejected a Supreme Court order (Brown v. Board of Education), and disobeyed orders to afford people equal protection of the law. He stood up for his disgusting beliefs, and racists thought that he was a hero for doing so. Like Kim Davis, he was an elected official who physically prevented citizens from accessing rights to which the Supreme Court had ruled they were entitled. It is mind-boggling that Santorum would claim to be on the right side of history here.
Donald Trump for president!
