The Last Thing We Need

Senator Sam Brownback (Retard - KS) is one of the GOP's "virtuecrats" that make the Republican party so repulsive to anyone with a functioning brain. Read his presidential campaign page - the most salient point of his strategy for helping America seems to be prayer. Like that'll do a damn bit of good. (On the other hand, maybe it really will: I'd rather that Brownback waste his time praying than passing legislation to advance his theocratic agenda.)

In a recent speech, Brownback made his stance quite clear on the relationship between church and state: "The last thing we need in America," he said, "is to take God out of our public lives and institutions!"

If that's true, than our Founding Fathers really screwed up. There is no mention of God in the United States Constitution.

But fortunately, it's not true. Taking God out of public life is exactly what this country needs. God deserves no place in politics, not only because he isn't real, but also because including him in public institutions is unfair to citizens who are too intelligent to base their value systems on belief in a mythical deity and hope of reward after death.

The last thing we need in America is more evangelical idiots from Kansas.