Marquis de Sade Where Are You?

Here are the opening paragraphs of the article everyone is talking about:

As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day "Justice Sunday" and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but under the heading "the filibuster against people of faith," it reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

Well, it looks as though we have arrived. After the election the right was quick to protest the idea that "religious extremism" was responsible for Bush's victory. They carted out a series of op-ed pieces and talking heads; all swearing that the ascendancy of Bush to a second term was all about dependability, being "steadfast" and "leadership". Bullshit. Conservatives have been trying to make this about God from the beginning. Personally, I hope that in the upcoming debate on the issue no qualifiers and/or disclaimers are made by the left to placate the religious beliefs of anyone. Religion, like sexuality, is a private matter – period. When government uses religion as a weapon, government itself becomes a cancer in the body politic.

In any event, the cat is out of the bag. These bastards don't need to be coddled, compromised with, or negotiated with "on a bipartisan basis"…they need to be stripped of power, publicly humiliated, and banished.