Blogger David Carson reports that the Democratic Party of Washington state last week was offering for sale car magnets showing the familier Christian fish symbol--only inside the fish appears the word HYPOCRITE and a cross against a background of red-orange flames.
Presumably the cross-burning imagery is unintentional. Even so, the politics of this are puzzling. To be sure, there are people with a strong distaste for Christianity, and especially for Christian conservatives, but this is a fairly small group, and the vast majority of them surely vote Demoratic anyway. According to Adherents.com, 82% of Americans are Christians. It's hard to see how a political party can hope to build a majority by alienating four-fifths of the electorate.
We guess this occurred to the Dems, who quickly removed the offending magnet from its Web page advertising it--but not before radio hostess Dori Monson saved a copy.
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