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An interesting editoral on the RNC’s mass mailings to West Virginia and Arkansas suggesting that Democrats, if elected would ban the Bible.

Honestly, I am neither a good Republican nor a good Democrat. Talking of banning the Bible, however, does incite fear in the faithful and will prompt them to some sort of action.

The Republican National Committee has acknowledged sending mass mailings to voters in at least two states that suggest Democrats would, if elected in 2004, ban the Bible.

Literature designed and paid for by the Republican Party and distributed in West Virginia and Arkansas featured an image of the primary text of Christianity and the label “banned.” Next to it was an image of a gay marriage ceremony labeled “allowed.” The text beneath the images read, “This will be Arkansas … if you don’t vote” or “This will be West Virginia … if you don’t vote.”

The literature was distributed as part of a campaign to stir fears among evangelical Christians, whose votes the Republican National Committee and the George W. Bush campaign believe could provide the margin of victory for the president’s re-election campaign in key swing states.

To the view of the people working for the Republican National Committee and the Bush campaign, who are following a god named Karl Rove, this is just politics. Under the influence of the White House political czar who has guided Bush’s every step in the electoral arena, they have suspended morality in the pursuit of a win-at-any-cost approach to electioneering.

But this is not just politics.

This is something much darker, much more troubling.

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