DEAR EDITOR:
Most of the time, the extremists who are currently calling
themselves
”
conservative
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shy away from overtly revealing their racial intolerance.
DEAR EDITOR:
Most of the time, the extremists who are currently calling themselves “conservative” shy away from overtly revealing their racial intolerance. After all, the whole idea is to create the illusion that today’s conservatives are “compassionate” in matters concerning race. J.G. McCormack pulls the covers off the right-wing pretense.
Mr. McCormack has done us all an immense favor by revealing the hatred that drives many of these extreme ideologies. He irrationally believes that there is some sort of Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to discriminate according to race. He is wrong.
I had to smile at his introduction, where he declared his agreement with Bill OReilly “98 percent of the time.” How interesting, since the column McCormack refers to was far and away O’Reilly’s most moderate and fair-minded. Apparently, he only agrees with O’Reilly when he’s crass and bigoted.
McCormack gleefully digs himself a huge hole. His “birds of a feather” analogy was both disturbing and enlightening. It reveals his belief that humans of different races are, like robins and blackbirds, members of different species. Wrong again. Humans are all members of the same species.
But there is much more going on than birds flocking together when a community of high schoolers can’t see clear to welcome ONE black student to their dance. McCormack, however, can’t seem to decide what he wants us to believe about the matter. First he defends the white students’ “right” to exclude the student and then pretends to think that O’Reilly “jumps to the conclusion that the 17-year-old black student was excluded because of the color of his skin …” I guess this means that the student probably wasn’t discriminated against, but if he HAD been it would be OK … Huh?
I have to admit I was amused by the frankly silly assertion that the Bill of Rights was written by “Our Creator.” This was followed by a Hippie-style declaration that anything is a right if it fits in with the “pursuit of happiness.” Now there’s some shaky moral ground. Funny, I thought conservatives hated the ’60s.
But his most thoughtless insult was the outrageous accusation against the motives of Jesus of Nazareth. I certainly hope Gilroy’s often vocal CHRISTIANS will have something to say about McCormack’s simply vicious (as well as ludicrous) interpretation of Christ’s words from the Gospel of Luke. Only a member of the Aryan Nations or the Christian Identity movement could interpret Luke 14: 8-10 the way J.G. McCormack does.
Imagine, using the Bible to prove a right to exclude people from fellowship! Of course, this is only possible by blatantly ignoring Paul in Galatians 3:28 when he says: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free; there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Hey, what happened to the birds of different feathers?
This brings up another side to the issue of church and state separation for those who are just aching to “get God back into the schools.” The Christian religion is interpreted hundreds of different ways, from liberally tolerant to overtly hateful and racist. Which interpretation will we force down the throats of our children when the Theocratic Educational System is put in place? Mr. McCormack’s observations, being so common to the rising extremist movement, should make us grateful that the school system ISN’T teaching religion.
Bill C. Jones, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, May 29 to ed****@****ic.com
