The GOCP

We’re going to have to change the nickname for the Republicans. The Grand Old Christianist Party keeps moving further and further toward a complete conflation of church and state and a massive increase in government power, spending and soon, taxation. Mike Huckabee is the latest to reflect the trend; as does the astonishing number of Republican candidates who back the South Dakota law criminalizing all abortions, regardless even of rape, incest or the health of the mother. I should make it clear that I’m not referring to many Christians of sincere faith who vote for both parties. I mean those Christianists who believe that their sectarian views should be imposed by law on those who disagree with them and hold a different faith, or even different version of Christianity. I mean those Christians who specifically disavow Jesus’ insistence that God and Caesar be clearly separated – while insisting that everyone else be governed by the literal word of God.