Fromma Harrop Evangelical Saviour

Only in a parallel universe would Froma Harrop’s advice to religious conservatives, Commentary, 6/10/05, Religious Conservative Need to Look at Substance Over Style, be taken seriously. Perched from her self-exalted seat on the moral high ground, Harrop ridicules Conservatives for having less real compassion than Liberals, derides President Bush’s “values agenda” as just window-dressing and chastises Republicans as “all talk – no action” on “pro-life” issues. In an obvious and hopeless attempt to marginalize and fractionalize Persons of Faith, Harrop gleefully imagines a world where only big-money corporations control the political agenda and religious conservatives are disregarded.

Hello, Fromma...earth to Harrop.

In the 130 days since the second Bush Administration was sworn-in, Justices Owens, Brown, Pryor, Griffin and McKeague have been seated, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray just announced that the Criminal Division of the Justice Department is establishing an Obscenity Prosecution Task Force dedicated exclusively to the investigation and prosecution of obscenity cases and President Bush has threatened to veto Stem Cell legislation that “destroys life in order to save life”. Additionally, President Bush has made a public effort to get the Senate to vote on and approve a measure backing parents' involvement in a teenager's abortion decision. While the House has passed a version of the bill on three occasions, the latest on a very strongly bipartisan 270-157 vote, the Senate has never voted on it -- in part because pro-abortion lawmakers have held it up. On the State level, Lawmakers in Wisconsin and Kansas recently pushed ahead on efforts to amend their constitutions' to ban gay marriage and Utah's Legislature has agreed to put the question to its voters.

Certainly, Harrop knows that any further action on the proposed Marriage Amendment to the Constitution depends on how well the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) holds up. For ol’ Fromma to claim that (it) has been forgotten by the Administration demonstrates either her ignorance or contempt. Finally, Harrop bemoans that; the Democratic Party has a cultural and stylistic disadvantage in attracting religious conservatives, especially in the South. Yeah, I’d say that Liberal ideals such as, “the Culture of Death”, “Hate America First” and “Homosexual Marriage” would be difficult to sell to religious conservatives and that no matter how much “style” the Democrats have, it’ll never be enough to mask who they really are.

In the real universe, Fromma Harrop should limit her advise to Democrats, religious or not. I'm sure they'd really benefit from hearing her sanctimonious sarcasm as Religious Conservatives gradually reclaim control of our American culture.




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