The Alabama Legislature reconvenes after the Thanksgiving recess.

Jim Crow won an election in Alabama on Nov. 2, the recent one, a 21st century one.

Subject to an automatic recount Nov. 29 because of the closeness, Alabamians voted not to repeal sections of a state constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1956 to mandate racially segregated schools.

This year, the Alabama Legislature referred Amendment 2 to the voters to take out of the state’s constitution the three most egregious vestiges of racism in its segregation amendment. They were that schools must be segregated, that a poll tax had to be paid and that a right to an education at taxpayer expense did not exist for an Alabama child. (And you thought the purpose of a constitution was to grant, not void, rights.)...professed Christians, those of supposedly superior moral values, beat Amendment 2....

Roy Moore, the ousted Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who built a Ten Commandments monument in the courthouse, said that repealing the ban on a right to education would effectively establish such a right.

Being the most progressive state in the deep south is kind of like being the tallest pygmy; neverthless the Times-Record seemed to enjoy castigating the brownshirts next door.

Spearheading the effort to reject the ballot initiative was -- no surprise here -- the Christian Coalition. After all, what could be a more Christian act than to segregate people by race, unfairly impose poll taxes and deny children an education? I'm sure this bunch of hypocrites could quote you chapter and verse in scriptural justification....after all, they have an almost trial lawyer-esque relationship with the Good Book. They parse sentences in Matthew or Thessalonians like they are city ordinances. Of course, they are also notorious for skimming past the parts where Jesus talks about love and mercy, or where he condemns the Pharisees for loving the Law more than the Word.

I don't know about you, but I've had enough. There is nothing Christian about these people. Nothing at all. They are cynically using Christian rhetoric to advance what is unquestionably an evil agenda -- and the Republican party has made a deal with the devil in throwing in with them. They have all conspired to kidnap Jesus and stuff him in the trunk. And I want him back.

I'm fed up with the lip service given to Christian values, dispensed by these sanctimonious, self-appointed defenders of "moral values". And I'm also fed up with the mainstream media for treating these lunatics seriously and providing them with a platform.

The next time I see one of these kooks on television, I'm reaching for the phone to call the network. The next time I see one of these kooks quoted in a newspaper article, I'm calling the editor. And if ever meet one of these kooks in person, I'm going to smite him repeatedly with all the strength that God, in his divine wisdom, gave to me at the beginning of the world.

I'll seek absolution later.