Minnesota: Liberals are Anti-God

In Minnesota, as in other areas of the country, Republicans are telling voters that Democrats and the Democratic party are so anti-God that if God could vote, God would definitely and always vote Republican. Maybe that's a good reason to vote Democrat?

The Star Tribune reports on a Republican official who sent a very interesting advertisement to local newspapers:

In his effort to form a chapter of the Teen Age Republicans in Renville County, [Rick Blauvelt, who is a member of the Republican Party's county committee] said he may have gone a bit too far in an invitation for teens to come to an organizational meeting in Olivia on Tuesday night. The message, which Blauvelt asked newspapers in the county to run as a public service, read in part: "This group will be a grass-roots movement to learn about how America got started, the difference between Republicans and Democrats, why the nation is split, why God is detested by our opponents and will be a force for the Republican Party in Renville County, not to be ignored. ..."

Blauvelt is so remorseful over what he said that he is hoping that the one newspaper dumb enough to run his ad will run the following correction:

"I made a mistake. I felt embarrassment about it," Blauvelt said. "I should have made it more generic." He said he should have pointed out that homosexuality, gay marriage and abortion are anti-God. In a so-called "correction" he wanted the Bird Island paper to publish, he wrote that those who are on the political right are on God's side; those on the political left are anti-God.

Oh, that makes it OK then, right? People who are on the political left and who support things like greater economic assistance for the poor are anti-God... because, you know, God hates poor people. Or maybe God loves poor people so much that he wants to make sure that they stay poor, lest he lose one of his sources of entertainment.

Blauvelt concedes that it's possible he may have failed to understand Minnesota's religious and cultural traditions. He and his wife, Karen, moved to Olivia from Corpus Christi, Texas, last March. "That's the real Bible Belt," Blauvelt said. "Up here, you're either Lutheran or you're out."

Maybe, he even conceded, all DFLers [DFL = Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party] aren't anti-God. "Maybe there are Democrats who are believers," said Blauvelt, doubt in his voice. "But it would be real hard for them. I do believe it's time for Christianity to play a bigger role in politics, and you have to be true to the Bible to be true to God."

As it happens, Blauvelt is represented in the state Senate by a DFLer, Gary Kubly, who is a pastor at a Lutheran church in Granite Falls. The two have not met. Given Kubly's party affiliation, does Blauvelt think the minister/senator might be anti-God? "I'm not sure," Blauvelt said. "I guess the only way to judge his heart is to hold him up to scriptures."

Kubly is both exasperated and concerned by the attitudes of Christian zealots and the mixing of religion and politics. Zealotry is growing, he said. "The intolerance of these people reminds me of what you see in parts of the Muslim world," Kubly said. "... I would hope all people in public office are influenced by their faith. But to me, it's arrogance of the highest degree to think your faith is supreme to mine."

Well, that's because Kubly doesn't come from Texas, the "real Bible Belt." Kubly is a mere resident of Minnesota where everyone is Lutheran, a denomination that barely qualifies as "real" Christianity. It's obvious that his faith is inferior to Blauvelt's, just as are his politics. The sooner he figures that out and steps aside so that people like Blauvelt can take control, the sooner that Real Christianity can be imposed by the government.

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