Phony Christians and patriots

Look carefully at what you have become. You are endangering the life of a 12 year old boy.

You say you are good Christians? What Christian would support and encourage torture? What Christian celebrates war? Mocks injured children, soldiers and worse yet, belittles the wounded? What Christian declares intolerance to other beliefs a Christian ideal? What Bible are you reading from? This is not the Christianity I recognize.

You say you are patriots? What patriot hates his fellow citizens and demands the country change to fit his specific ideals? What patriot declares that this nation built on the dreams of immigrants should deny all other immigrants the chance to come here? What patriot states that diversity is a weakness not a strength?

You say you want government to deal with your important issues? Yet you elect officials who have repeatedly shown they despise government and have worked to break it. Why would you repeatedly vote in people who are incompetent? Why would you vote against your own self interests?

You say you support family values? What kind of family throws out their beloved children when they find they are gay yet supports elected officials who in increasing frequency are caught with their pants down?

And here you are mocking a 12 year old.

It truly is time to say, "Shame on you."

You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

(Idea via Eli at Multi Medium.)

Update: Ripley at Zen Cabin has a few comments on Rush Limbaugh's take on ... 12 year old boys.

Update 10/11: Bryan of Why Now? considers the financial and health care aspects.

Update: Chet Scoville of Vanity Press has an excellent overview of the polarized philosophies exposed by this event:

Moral philosophers tell us that one of the main ideas behind victim blaming is the "just world theory": the idea that justice is somehow morally encoded into the universe itself, rather than being a product of human culture and effort. Under one version of this theory, people tend to get what they deserve -- so, if you're poor, you get all the blame for being poor; if you're wealthy, you get all the credit of being wealthy, and if something bad happens to you, you brought it on yourself somehow. This version of the just world theory is, I think, one of the mainstays of modern conservatism, and the pushback against it -- the insistence that a victim is to be helped, not blamed -- is one of the mainstays of modern liberalism.