If one wants a good glimpse at the ugliness which is today's Christofascist/Tea Party controlled Republican Party, a good example is what happened at a A town hall meeting held by Texas Tea Party state Rep. David Simpson (R). Simpson committed the heresy of supposedly not doing enough to stop undocumented Central American children and youths from flooding the border. Of course, these Tea Party folks are 85% or more self-identified conservative Christians, so their reaction shows how little they care about the Gospel message. If they aren't controlling the sex lives of other people and feigning piety on Sunday mornings at church, they really want nothing to do with the true Christian message. A piece in The Raw Story looks at the batshitery that erupted this week. Here are highlights:
A town hall meeting held by Texas Tea Party state Rep. David Simpson (R) on Wednesday got heated as Simpson’s constituents railed at him for not doing more to stop the influx of unaccompanied, undocumented minors coming to the United States from Central and South America.
The Longview, Texas News-Journal reported that the conservative attendees expressed health concerns, religious fears and doubts about Simpson’s commitment to putting his “constituents first.”
Simpson attempted to tell the crowd of about 160 residents that the thousands of children arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border are fleeing lives of violence and abuse, including gangsters who specialize in trafficking children as sex slaves. Texans should treat the children with compassion, he said, a notion that his audience summarily rejected.
After Simpson’s slide show of the faces of some of the border children, Longview resident Terri Hill said, “I believe your constituents should come first when you talk about people who are impacted. You are to represent us, and we have children. These [migrant children] are people that are coming in with leprosy, tuberculosis, polio.”
Another resident, Ben Denson, expressed fear that the children could be disease-carriers.
We need a lot of things, but what we don’t need is more people at the trough,” said Thomas Rolland to Simpson. “These people are not coming in with a good, Christian heart. Most of them are criminals, anyway.”
Simpson protested, “These children are fodder in this. They are being assaulted.”
“I don’t believe in amnesty,” he assured the crowd. “I don’t believe in treating people who’ve crossed the border as a murderer…I do think there should be a path, a legal path, for naturalization or citizenship. We’re a nation of immigrants.”
It sounds like Simpson needs to switch political parties. He may also want to avoid hanging around the modern day Pharisees of the GOP base. The GOP base continues to provide the best argument around as to why one would want to walk away from both the GOP and Christianity.
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