You would think that anyone could see that the biggest threat facing this country today is the economic situation and Congress's cowardly, craven, power-lusting response to it.
You would think that would be the prime pre-occupation of every legislator in the country right now.
Right?
Wrong.
Apparently some legislators seek a distraction to deflect the public's attention away from their culpability in the current situation. Witness Utah state senator Chris Buttars. According to an email I received this morning from the Human Rights Campaign, senator Buttars has caught the Kern disease, and seems to have nothing better to do in this time of crisis than inform his fellow legislators and constituents that the greatest threat this country faces today is . . .
Homosexuality.
Sigh.
HRC has posted a video of Buttars on YouTube.
Update - 6pm, Feb 20th: Buttars has been reprimanded by the Utah State Senate.
Medieval Usage, Medieval Mentality?
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At *Jewish World Review* is a thought-provoking column by someone new to
me, Adrian Wooldridge.
Wooldridge contends in his title and in his conclusion that...
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