Brit Hume has hit the political chat show headlines for a comment he made on FOX News Sunday. I don't watch that junk, so I picked it up from other shows. Hume said that Tiger Woods, could redeem his image by converting to Christianity. According to Hume, Christianity has a clear path for cheating husbands to redeem their image. (Apparently Hume doesn't think that a weird religion like Buddhism, which Woods' practices, is good enough.)
Hume should know a lot about redemption, but he is not exactly a shining example of the virtues of Christianity. Like a lot of Conservatives, he is on his second marriage. (Karl Rove just divorced wife no. 2.) His son was gay, alcoholic and also committed suicide.
What is it with these Conservatives and gay children? Hume joins a long list of conservative, family values types who produce gay children. Apart from Hume, there is also Dick Cheney, Alan Keyes, Randall Terry (who also divorced his first wife for a younger woman,) and Phyllis Schlafly.
For years I have known that there was a secret gay Republican sub culture, however the Mark Foley and Larry Craig scandals blew the lid of it. Liberal writer Max Blumenthal documented the seamy underbelly of the Conservative movement in his book "Republican Gomorrah."
Apart from being just flat out over the line, Hume's response is also very offensive to Buddhists and people of other faiths. So after decades of colonialism and evangelism, and we still have old white men telling black people what religion to practice.
For years I have known that there was a secret gay Republican sub culture, however the Mark Foley and Larry Craig scandals blew the lid of it. Liberal writer Max Blumenthal documented the seamy underbelly of the Conservative movement in his book "Republican Gomorrah."
Apart from being just flat out over the line, Hume's response is also very offensive to Buddhists and people of other faiths. So after decades of colonialism and evangelism, and we still have old white men telling black people what religion to practice.
