Saturday, August 16, 2003

A foretaste of the 2004 campaign

From the laughingly called "non-partisan" Presidential Prayer Team:

Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to biblical principles. With many forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God's Word and His standards will be honored by our government.

Get ready, folks. 2004 is going to get very ugly, and very rough. I wonder if these guys are familiar with the concept of imprecatory prayer? Like calling down God's wrath on the Bush administration and all its works?

NOTE: The PPT has an awesomely beautiful polling question, too:

Should religious leaders be allowed to speak and/or pray at public school gatherings such as a graduation ceremony or a sports event?

Heck, I don't mind if they speak—I just don't want my dime to pay for their religion, so I don't want them to pray. But that's not an answer in this poll. Anyhow, the PPT has achieved totalitarian plebiscite approval levels (no surprise, eh?) of 99% with this true gem of the pollster's art ...