Should the administration decide which congregations
are suitable for participation in American democracy?
 

Dear Nephew,

Eben passed by on his way to Purview High. He’s prepping this summer for next fall’s history classes – like he hasn’t taught them enough already.

I showed him the letter I sent you yesterday suggesting you switch to a safer faith. He’d missed the New York Times report about Bush & Co. selecting which congregations should vote for him. Eben chuckled and said Bush had better get up and switch faiths too cause he doubted if even the Methodists were strict enough for the fundamentalists he's courting.

Actually, Eben was really incensed. Scowling, he said, "Any time you get a group who anoints themselves morally superior and they get a grip on political power, you’ve got trouble. He says it doesn’t matter if it’s the clergy in the Middle Ages, Bolshevics in Russia, Ayrian Supremists in Germany, Islamic Fundamentalists in Afganistan, or Christian Fundamentalists in America. The eventual upshot is tyranny and persecutions – be the targets heretics, the Bourgeoisie, Jews, infidels, or gays, lesbians, abortionists, and those who use condoms."

And with that, he steamed off to school.

Land sakes, Nephew, you’d better give up smokin’ , drinkin’, gamblin’ and protected sex right now – that is, if you engage in those forbidden pleasures.

Yours Truly, :-)
Great Aunt Maggie Pye