I don't know how this happened, but I have somehow landed on an email list of the American Family Association of Tupelo, Mississippi, an extremist American Taliban group. Despite several requests to be taken off the list, I'm still there. That means I receive periodic updates of everything America is doing to persecute x-tians.

Today, I received an urgent alert about a call to action from Newt Gingrich (yeah he's a good role model for "family values.") Apparently Gingrich is in a snit because the economic stimulus package "discriminates against Christians." How could that be? Well, according to Gingrich, the stimulus package specifies that no funds may be used by universities to construct or rehab buildings where religious instruction or worship takes place. It doesn't deny funds to church related universities. They can use the money all they want for building classrooms, dorms, phys ed facilities, and the like. They just can't build chapels or classrooms for religious instruction.

OH MY GOD! The government under President Obama is actually honoring the separation of church and state principle set down by Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Adams, et al. And the poor x-tians are squealing like stuck pigs.

TOO FUCKING BAD! I'm glad my tax dollars are not going to help you spread your myths, superstitions, and hatred against your fellow man. It's how it should be.