The senatorial shakedown of Ashcroft is nothing less than sickening. Blimpish politicians of bottomless moral decay are savaging Ashcroft simply because he is a pro-life Christian. Period.
Were the Founding Fathers alive today, could they pass Senate confirmation? No. Could Abraham Lincoln? No. Could Christ himself? No.
Ashcroft believes, as did the Founding Fathers before him, that “there is no king but Jesus.” But in Kennedy's America there is no king but Caesar. And so we must watch in horror as this bloated Barabbas sends Christ to the cross.
Believing Christians, simply put, need no longer apply for government service. At least not for any position of any significance. The unstated premise underlying Kennedy's assault on Ashcroft is this “The position of attorney general is far too important to give to a committed Christian like you.”
USA Today asks, “Can a deeply religious person be attorney general?” Kennedy's answer is an unequivocal no.
Ashcroft has said that people should trust him as attorney general precisely because he believes in God. But as Kennedy's insistent question to him-can we trust you?-underlines, fidelity to God is now seen as infidelity to man.
Kennedy, as befits a pro-abortion Catholic, will only accept a faithless Christian as attorney general. Like Joe Biden-that other pro-abortion Catholic phony crawling atop Ashcroft's back-Kennedy can only accept Ashcroft if he repudiates his Pentecostal faith. Then and only then would he meet the new religious test for high service in American government.
Christians only “grow” and “mature” in the elite's view when they betray their faith.Hence Joseph Ashcroft is treated like a leper while Joseph Lieberman is treated like a hero.
Indeed, the elite are overjoyed when a secularized religious person appears on the political front. They figure: What better cover for our rancid agenda than the robe of religion? What better way to sanctify the sacred right of killing children than with holy water?
But woe to the religious man who stays religious. In a country where good is evil and evil good, piety is the last sin.
John Ashcroft is an “extremist,” they say, even as they defend such acts of extreme indecency as partial-birth abortion.
John Ashcroft won't enforce the “law,” they say, even as they defend a departing president who shredded it.
John Ashcroft went to the “anti-Catholic” Bob Jones University, they say, even as they persecute pro-life Catholics.
They call Ashcroft a “fox” who would guard the henhouse, even as blood trickles from their mouths.
Ashcroft has turned his bruised cheek, choosing to suffer injustice rather than commit it. But one secretly longs for him to respond with the fury of Christ, driving these whited sepulchers from the desecrated temple of American politics.
