Last week, I saw this sign in front of a church just a few blocks from where I live.
The "Sen. Eric Oemig" on the sign is Washington state senator Eric Oemig, who ran on a moderate platform last year.
My top three issues are:
- Improve and support public education, so every child can succeed. All Americans deserve the opportunity to compete, and that requires access to excellent education.
- Heal our health care system, starting with ensuring that every child has access to quality health care, especially preventative health care.
- Fix our transportation system, for both people with cars and people without cars.
But on taking office has devoted most of his time to trying to impeach President Bush. There are people in this state, cynical people, no doubt, who think that Senator Oemig may have misrepresented himself during the campaign. (There are even people who wonder why he wants so much to make Dick Cheney president; others suspect that Oemig does not understand the rules of succession.)
Since that is what Oemig has been doing, I have to wonder whether his appearance at the Northlake Unitarian Universalist church was part of his campaign. If it was, would the church have been breaking tax laws that limit what a tax-exempt organization can do, politically? (I considered attending the "service", but was not sure that a Bush supporter would be welcome. More important, I don't know enough about the tax laws to look for violations. But if this church keeps running these events, I suppose that I will have to do the research.)
This wasn't the only curious sign I saw associated with this church. There were also signs around town promoting a documentary shown last Saturday at the church, The Iron Wall. Now, I'll admit that I haven't seen the movie, but I must say that it looks like a piece of pro-terrorist propaganda.
Both are strange things for a church to be doing, at least a church that values harmony and peace, and opposes fascism. (Although "fascism" is not a perfect word to describe the beliefs of Arafat's heirs, it is the closest Western word for them. And anyone who doubts that point need only note that one of the most popular books in the area they control is Hitler's Mein Kampf.)
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
(My apologies for closing this post to comments. As I explained in a previous post, we have a serious problem at this site with a few abusive commenters. Until we find a better solution for the problems they cause, I will be closing many of my posts, since I don't want to spend my time babysitting.)
Posted by Jim Miller at May 07, 2007 02:46 PM | Email This