The Theocrats Are Coming! (Are They?)
"The theocrats are coming!" shriek some sentinels of the contemporary political battlefield every time a Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Rick Perry, or Bobby Jindal clear their throats.
Paul Revere, having seen the lanterns in Boston's Christ Church bell-tower, shouted out, "The British are coming!" Today's harbingers of theocratic threat get their signals from the towers of secularity, some latticed with ivy, others in the form of broadcasting antennae, and still more in the shape of looming skyscrapers.
As evidence that the theocratists are on the move, the guardians of secular sanctity point to preacher-politician Huckabee's in-your-face book, God, Guns, and Grit. Or they note Ben Carson's penchant for sermonizing.
They shiver at Bobby Jindal going to a prayer meeting rather than the Iowa Freedom Summit. And didn't Rick Perry speak a full 13 minutes at the big prayer meeting attended by 30,000 in Houston's Reliant Stadium in August 2011? More reason to wring one's hands over the gathering theocratic cloud.
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