Wait–You Mean Vogue Covergirls Are Airbrushed?

Tomorrow I’ll have a thoughtful post about the spurious use of “religious freedom” to defend bigotry and inequality. In the meantime, how about some bare contempt for people who must actually enjoy being played for suckers:

And at a meeting in Northern Virginia this weekend of the Council for National Policy, an alliance of the most prominent Christian conservatives, several participants said sentiment toward the White House and Republicans in Congress had deteriorated sharply since the 2004 elections.

When the group met in the summer of 2004, it resembled a pep rally for Mr. Bush and his allies on Capitol Hill, and one session focused on how to use state initiatives seeking to ban same-sex marriage to help turn out the vote. This year, some participants are complaining that as soon as Mr. Bush was re-elected he stopped expressing his support for a constitutional amendment banning such unions.

Wait–you mean Bush’s token support for a constitutional amendment with no chance of passing was nothing but a cynical ploy to persuade particularly dim-witted rubes to vote for them? I tell ya, life is full or surprises. Why, earlier today I was walking on the Upper East Side and saw a woman with a facelift walking a tiny dog. Then I found out that I wasn’t listed in the Fortune 500. And then I watched an episode of Deadwood and someone used the word “cocksucker.” You just can’t foresee anything these days.

But the constitutional amendment Rove will unveil next month making homosexuals 3/5ths of a fetus, and fetuses 7/5ths of a woman? They really mean it this time! Keep voting for ruinous foreign wars and upper class tax cuts!