Christian religion and Republican politics have become hiding places for perverts

What is it about folks on the Christian right who preach the Good Book but are really, really bad? You know, guys like Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert and Ted Haggart, who never flinched at taking their pious flocks' money but always managed to set aside a little for some out-of-town sweet young stuff?That got me thinking about other Christian conservative holier-than-thou folks. Their perversions have been routinely reported in various national news media, so I don't have to make anything up.Their commonality is that they are most often Republican Conservative Christian activists who have preached "Christian family values" while performing unspeakable acts of perversion, usually illegal, often with minors, frequently with their own family members. So much for family values from the conservative Christian right.Now, I am not saying that there aren't perverts who call themselves Democrats. But somehow the conservative Republican brand are true and certain holy hypocrites, along with being perverts. When a political party presents itself as the Party of God ("Hezbollah," in Arabic) - whether it is Christians in Georgetown or Shiites in Iran - you can be absolutely certain that there is something kinky being hidden underneath all of that religious puffery.Consider the child rape scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church over the past few years and you will realize that this is an alarming national problem. The fact that child rape is even more common among Protestant clergy than among Catholic priests is truly horrifying. When you count the number of Christian Republican anti-gay-anti-choice police that have been arrested and sentenced for perverse acts with children, you come to realize that Christian religion and conservative Republican politics are truly a dark, moist hiding place for perverts and scoundrels of all stripes - perhaps in larger numbers than anywhere else. It just goes to show that the worst thing you can do with a dogma is provide it an empire.Chloe JohnsonNewcastle