Did he say "Blessed are the cheesemakers"?

[kpete]

Charles Pierce's description of a teabagger:

Bill Temple has something of a hair problem. For a year or so now, he has dressed himself up in full colonial militia regalia. Unfortunately, his wife won't let him grow a ponytail. So Bill let his hair grow as long as was conducive to domestic tranquility and then he attached a fake ponytail to the collar of his jacket. The problem is that, when Bill turns his head, the ponytail doesn't move, and he looks like a man with a ferret on his neck. This rather destroys the illusion.


http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/founding-fathers-history-6496117

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"I'm Not Supposed to Have to Leave My Beliefs at the Door"
September 29, 2011 at 10:44AM by Charles P. Pierce | 0 comments

Oh, no. Not this again. Please, Jesus, you know I'm your amigo. But stop this Bible-believin' anti-gay-marriage clerk stuff before it becomes one of those things that sets tiny springs a-poppin' out of Sean Hannity's head. I fear that it already may be too late.

I ran out of sympathy with these people long before I ran out of patience with them. Look, Toots. Even those tiresome pharmacists whose consciences prevented them from handing out the pill had more room to maneuver than you do. You were elected to serve the secular government of Ledyard. If you are a Notary Public, you are licensed by the secular government of the state of New York which did, through its secular constitutional legislative process, determine that gay people shall be allowed the same right to marry as straight people. The deliberately godless Constitution of the United States specifically forbids any religious test for office. Are you seriously arguing that you ought to be allowed to be the head proctor of a private religious test for who can get married, when the legislature already has decided that issue? If God truly "comes first for you," don't whistle up some wingnut legal factory so you can have your bigotry and eat it, too. Stamp the papers or quit your job.

At this point, I'm so fed up with this manner of nonsense that I didn't even notice until quite a bit later how perfectly Our Lady of the Selectric's martyrdom lines up with the Life of Brian.


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gay-marriage-town-clerk-6499541#ixzz1ZMld3cpl

[Warren DeMontague]

1. "his wife won't let him grow a ponytail." WHAT? I thought it went from God-->Jesus-->Man-->Wife!!

She needs to get the Michelle and Marcus Bachmann primer on, ah, gracious submission.