Crusade for sanctimony eclipses sanity

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04314/408888.stm

Just as rain makes everyone depressed except the fellow selling umbrellas, the re-election of President Bush has forced me to be philosophical. For whatever disasters overtake the nation, my column has been guaranteed four more years of tip-top material.

No doubt John Kerry could have obliged me in the same way had he won, but the proven disaster is always a better bet than the potential disaster. So I join cartoonists and other satirical-minded wags in wishing the president all the best in the fond hope that he will not disappoint us by doing anything sensible.

But I must admit to one disappointment already -- and unfortunately this is something where I and many commentators have been guilty of leading the public astray. We were all under the impression that this was a presidential election. I see now that it was really an election for Christian in Chief of the United States.

I mean no slur on the president's religion or anybody else's. I regularly attend church myself, although, in the interests of full disclosure, I was Sinner of the Month in October. But never in my wildest dreams did I think that we were voting on matters ecclesiastical. Yet exit polls revealed that "moral values" such as gay marriage were on some people's minds as much as terrorism. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, move over for Adam and Steve.