Keillor Anti-Christian Bias Par For The Course

November 17, 2004

Blue state arrogance is reaching ludicrous levels. Instead of getting over it, the whiny left continues to wallow in their misery by lashing out at those of us in the red states with condescending vitriol. NPR's Garrison Keillor is just the latest example. The self-avowed bleeding heart liberal is now suggesting that born-again Christians be stripped of their voting rights. It would be an outrage if he simply uttered such an absurdity once, but he has repeated his desires on several occasions. After first broaching the idea on his radio program, he had the gall to repeat his call for Christian disenfranchisement at, of all places, a chapel in Chicago.

 

“I am now chairman of a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians,” he said, to thunderous applause from his hoity-toity, latte-sipping, red state-detesting audience. Now, I know Keillor is a humorist and, supposedly, his comments were said in jest, but what if another group were substituted for Christians? What if he said he was trying to disenfranchise Jews or Muslims?

 

Or, what if that were me and I called for disenfranchising black people? Can you imagine the outcry? I can. I'd never work in this hemisphere again. The difference is, I would never utter such an outrageous comment, let alone repeat it several times. Yet, when Keillor makes derogatory remarks about Christians, nobody bats an eye. Certainly not the croissant-crunching crowd from NPR. And I thought we rabid right-wing radio hosts were supposed to be the loose canons.

 

Let's analyze for a moment why Keillor's comments didn't elicit national outrage. Students in California are subjected to “sensitivity training” and made to dress in Arab garb while reciting passages from the Koran but they can't utter the word “Christmas” anywhere on school grounds. The ACLU sues to stop a town meeting from opening with a prayer that evokes the name of Jesus. Christian missionaries who feed, clothe and build in third-world countries while spreading the Gospel are derided as oppressors while radical Muslims who strap bombs to their chests and blow up innocent men, women and children are described as “freedom fighters.”

 

The election of 2004 awoke the dozing cultural conservatives who the Left had hoped they'd hypnotized into a deep slumber with their golden pocket watch of political correctness. Made to feel as if revolting against their feel-good liberalism was somehow, well, unchristian, many social conservatives remained silent. Then the Left tried to drag them across a bridge too far – gay marriage. When forced to move from tolerance to acceptance, the cultural conservatives – even the meekest among them – balked.

 

Garrison Keillor didn't start this latest culture war but he certainly epitomizes it. The politically correct excoriate anyone who dares speak ill of another human being unless, of course, it's human beings they despise. Christians obviously made the difference at the ballot box. Even constituencies the Left historically took for granted began to erode because of the social issues. President Bush nearly doubled his support among Black voters in Ohio, a difference that may have put him over the top. Years of empty promises finally caught up with them. Liberals, instead of kicking themselves, continue to castigate the red staters as uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened hicks.

 

These narcissistic Keillorites, who tear their garments and gnash their teeth over John Kerry's defeat, look down their considerable noses at those who believe in a higher being. Why? Because, they figure, no one could possibly be higher than they. I've got news for ‘em. When propagandist Michael Moore gets trumped by a band of swift boat veterans one thing's for certain. There is a God.