Fantasyland: John McCain Attends An Abstinence Event
Robert Paul Reyes
February 19, 2007
During his 2000 presidential campaign John McCain referred to televangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as “agents of intolerance.”
McCain is convinced he can’t win the White House without the support of religious conservatives – this time around he is doing everything possible to curry favor with the religious right.
McCain has mended fences with Jerry Falwell, but most evangelical leaders are not quite so forgiving.
I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances, I pray that we won’t get stuck with him,'’ said James Dobson in an interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian radio station.
From the Associated Press:
The Arizona Republican is to speak Sunday night to about 1,500 middle and high school students about abstaining from pre-marital sex. Abstinence and abortion still loom as issues in this first-in-the-South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.
The event is to follow McCain’s appearance at a hot dog and ice cream social.”
Preaching abstinence to high school students is akin to urging celebrants in a Munich Oktoberfest festival to give up drinking beer. Only an evangelist, a fool or a pandering politician would undertake such a fool’s errand.
My God, what won’t the pandering McCain do to win the favor of the Christian right? By attending abstinence events and ice cream socials, McCain will be perceived by most Americans as someone who is living in a fantasy world.
Ice cream social? This ain’t “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, McCain needs to be introduced to the real world of crack babies, families without health care and skyrocketing costs of fuel.
The straight-shooter and maverick has been transformed into a soft and squishy pander bear.
McCain is convinced he can’t win the White House without the support of religious conservatives – this time around he is doing everything possible to curry favor with the religious right.
McCain has mended fences with Jerry Falwell, but most evangelical leaders are not quite so forgiving.
I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances, I pray that we won’t get stuck with him,'’ said James Dobson in an interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian radio station.
From the Associated Press:
The Arizona Republican is to speak Sunday night to about 1,500 middle and high school students about abstaining from pre-marital sex. Abstinence and abortion still loom as issues in this first-in-the-South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.
The event is to follow McCain’s appearance at a hot dog and ice cream social.”
Preaching abstinence to high school students is akin to urging celebrants in a Munich Oktoberfest festival to give up drinking beer. Only an evangelist, a fool or a pandering politician would undertake such a fool’s errand.
My God, what won’t the pandering McCain do to win the favor of the Christian right? By attending abstinence events and ice cream socials, McCain will be perceived by most Americans as someone who is living in a fantasy world.
Ice cream social? This ain’t “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, McCain needs to be introduced to the real world of crack babies, families without health care and skyrocketing costs of fuel.
The straight-shooter and maverick has been transformed into a soft and squishy pander bear.
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