Take Me To Post Comment Form A Refutation of Several Calumnies
Or
You Know Who You Are

The following is an open letter to the author of a litany of lies, who has taken it upon himself of late to slander a woman offering herself for high office, who while generally professing courtesy in person, resorts to innuendo, distortion, and outright mendacity when ensconced behind a computer screen. Inasmuch as this person affects to be familiar with the Founding Fathers, I will try to follow their style, though I fear this may not be of help to him in the end, as his pontifications have long since exceeded the store of his knowledge.

As I intend no malice through this missive, but rather hope that this fellow will privately admit of his errors and amend his conduct, I will refer to him anonymously, in order that he might recognize his base character through description. It would be uncharitable of me to embarrass him more than he has already embarrassed himself. Accordingly, he will herein be known as Mr. A (the reader may fill in the letters S, H, L, and appropriate vowels as they so incline). Mr. A has taken it upon himself to become an unhinged partisan of a certain candidate in the District 4 congressional race. His advocacy stems from his idea of what the task of a legislator is, centering on the notion that the U.S. is a Christian nation, rather than a nation peopled mainly by Christians, explicitly founded as such, by Founder’s intent. Thus in his mind it follows that those who would hold office must cleave to his own sectarian interpretation of the Bible, which he imagines was universal among the Founders, in order to have legitimacy. In doing so, he conflates America with Christianity so that the two are so mixed as to be one entity, with nationalism as a form of worship and dissent from this common creed a species of heresy.

This is of course ridiculous, as anyone who has studied history with any degree of seriousness knows. George Washington, John Adams, and Ben Franklin to a man denied the divinity of Christ. Thomas Jefferson openly described himself as an Epicurean and a Unitarian (Mr. A is free to look those words up). That they were some sort of prayer circle of chaste and penitent brothers of the Word is a common enough delusion among fundamentalist Protestants, and to judge by his writings is embraced in toto by Mr. A. Generally speaking, (Patrick Henry and a minority excepted) to the degree the Founding Fathers believed in Christianity, it was as a useful binding agent for society, hence their disinterest in creed. This is not to say that they were bad men; far from it. They were brilliant, tolerant, and mindful always of their high calling. Many of them, such as Sam Adams, were deeply religious. But they were not establishing a theocracy, of a soft or hard variety. Men such as Mr. A like to cling to scattered references to ‘prayer’ and ‘religion,’ in their writings as rats cling to flotsam, desperately trying to rescue an interpretation of the past they are partial to from the uncomfortable truth. Perhaps he should seek out scholars other than Glenn Beck when looking for source material if he is going to expound on history (no offense to Mr. Beck; he can’t be blamed for the actions of his dimmer fans). As a caveat, this author readily admits that he may have misjudged certain particulars of Mr. A’s beliefs, given his difficulties with clear language generally and the confusion evident in his writings which bespeak a lack of a liberal education.

There are four candidates running in D4, of whom only one excites Mr. A’s animus. She can safely be referred to as candidate LW (as in, Likely Winner). The other three are candidates X, Y, and Z. Candidate Z (as in ‘Z plane boss, Z plane!) is an amiable enough fellow who after deciding that he lacked prospects as an Independent, decided to run as a Republican, unfortunately after printing bumper stickers advertising his former allegiance. One hopes that Mr. A, incensed by those who run for GOP nominations without having been lifelong Republicans as he is, will now point this out. Candidate Y (as in, Y the hell are you running?) is a strange man who only leaves his house in order to ask LW the same questions again and again, about her stance on Israel and Gay Marriage respectively. As Y enjoys having the same discussion of Jews and homosexuality over and over ad nauseum, I submit that upon losing the primary, a prospect he seems indifferent to, he could go on a debate tour with Barney Frank. Candidate X (as in, he must have an eXtra long commute; see Florida tag and driver’s license) is Mr. A’s man.

Mr. A’s strange and suspicious preoccupation with the mechanics of homosexual life has warped his thinking to the point that he believes this man, X, is a proponent of the “Traditional Biblical Family.” Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac were a Biblical family, but then, so were David and Bathsheba, whose adulterous adventures Mr. A evidently had in mind when giving his endorsement. This author will readily stipulate that the Bible condemns homosexuality in the strongest terms, but this hardly exhausts the list of proscribed relations. Mr. A, who fancies himself a biblical scholar as well as a historian, would do well to look up the commandments regarding adultery and divorce, the latter of which proceeded directly from the mouth of Christ. Now Mr. A may well retort that X is a fallen creature like all of us and makes mistakes, and that X certainly does not advocate that sort of behavior as a general principle. This is true enough, but one can hardly imagine that he would support LW if she were cavorting with Ellen Degeneres while urging others to by all means avoid emulating the same.

Mr. A has called LW a racist, a “wolfette,” a leftist, and has lied repeatedly in print about her positions and her actions. He has insinuated that she is corrupt and that she is a RINO, as if his own positions are mainstream within the Republican Party. While generally he feigns courtesy in personal encounters, he has lowered himself to shouting in her face in public, disgracing himself as a man and as a believer in “Biblical values.” In Mr. A’s twisted imagination, LW represents an existential threat to the character of his country, and must be stopped by all means fair or foul.

For the record, LW is a profoundly decent and principled woman, who is PRO LIFE, PRO FAMILY, and PRO BUSINESS. LW was offered the endorsement of GA Right to Life. LW did not change her position regarding Israel. LW is a Christian, a wife and mother, a Businesswoman, and a lifelong conservative. She has run a decent campaign in the face of vicious attacks against her by himself and others, of which Mr. A is well aware, given that he is arm in arm with the pair of batty women who persisted in producing such libels until one of them was served with legal notice to desist.

If Mr. A truly believes that LW is the monster he claims he should have entered the race, rather than be content with cowardly sniping. The fact is that in the depths of his being he realizes that his crazed notions are too ludicrous to rise to the level of asinine. X is poorly served by such partisans, and would be advised to disassociate him from Mr. A forthwith.

Mr. A, before it is too late, before your character is too fully abandoned as to preclude any repair, this author and the people of D4 implore you to cease your ignorant and intemperate attacks on an honest woman, and adopt behavior worthy of a gentleman, that you may not be held in contempt by all and sundry. You know who you are. To this end I remain,

Your Servant

CATO