One should not expect too much from a man who flunked out of divinity school lecturing to a MoveOn.Org crowd about theology, the clueless preaching to the ignorant. But Al Gore's "Watch out, here comes theocracy!" speech is a shining example of the Left projecting onto people of faith its own dark motives and misdeeds.
Gore and his crowd have been trying for years to turn America into a theocracy, one based on their religion, secular humanism. The reason they're so furious nowadays is because they thought they had it in their grasp, only to see it slip away.
Now their last, best hope, the judiciary, is about to slip away from them. Oh, they'll still have the mainstream media, the academic establishment, the teachers' unions--but that's not the same as having a whole branch of the federal government to play with. In the judiciary the Left has a tool for imposing from the bench what it can't hope to win in an election.
The Left can lose elections, but it can't give up the courts. Liberal judges trump elections. They nullify elections. Fifty states might amend their constitutions to protect marriage, mustering tens of millions of voters to do it. Five judges on the Supreme Court can undo it.
Big-game hunters say a wounded beast is dangerous. American liberalism is a wounded animal. Political power is its life. Wounded in election after election, referendum after referendum, the beast feels its life ebbing away. In fury and in desperation, it lashes out--in superheated rhetoric, last-ditch filibusters in the Senate, and radio skits advocating the assassination of the President.
To understand what left-wing extremists--in one word, Democrats--mean when they say a theocracy is coming if they don't get their way, elections notwithstanding, consider these questions:
Has anyone been expelled from his elected office for not honoring the Ten Commandments?
Has any school district been sued and forced not to offer homosexuality-affirming "sex education"?
Has any college students' organization been shut down by authorities for not holding to Christian principles?
Is there one single problem in American life today that comes of too strictly following God's word? Has one human being suffered thereby?
These guys thought they had it all sewn up, but they thought wrong. Their whole expectation of turning the U.S.A. into France West was an illusion. As soon as talk radio and the Internet broke up the liberal media monopoly, when the Silent Majority suddenly had the means to be heard, the illusion dissolved--except in the minds of liberals, who continue to cling to it.
Their dream of a humanist theocracy is over. So they accuse Christians--the majority of Americans--of trying to set up a theocracy. They attribute to us what they sought to do themselves.
It only remains to be seen how much harm the wounded beast can do before it dies.
Copyright by Lee Duigon
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Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer whose work can be seen regularly at www.chalcedon.edu.
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