Giuliani and Robertson: With Friends Like These...

This quiet Sunday, I'm reminded by PBS of the Reverend Pat Robertson's message to the city of Dover, Pennsylvania, two years ago when that community replaced eight school board members who favored teaching intelligent design in public school science classrooms with citizens who respect the separation of church and state:

"If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city," Robertson said. "And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there." [reported by Christina Kauffman, "Robertson: 'Don't Turn to God,'" The York Dispatch, York, PA, 2005.11.11]

I don't even need to check with my resident theologian Prairie Roots to know there is something deeply, deeply unProtestant, unScriptural, and unChristian in that statement.

And Giuliani thinks it's a good thing to win Robertson's support? Yeesh. I might take Huckabee's Christianity over that of Giuliani's new pal:

Real faith makes us humble and mindful, not of the faults of others, but of our own. It makes us less judgmental, as we see others with the same frailties we have. Faith gives us strength in the face of injustice and motivates us to do our best for "the least of us." ["Faith and Politics," Mike Huckabee for President website, downloaded 2007.11.18]

The Kucinich banner is staying right where it is*. But if I had to pick a Republican, I'd have to lean toward one who understands that Christian living, like politics, is about being inclusive, not exclusive.

*With Badlands Blue continuing to work for the Clinton campaign, some SD Dem has to provide equal time for the smartest candidate in the race.