The Election is Coming, the Election is Coming!

Electioneering
Here in Ohio there is a battle brewing about congressional redistricting.  Here are the current map and the proposed map.

As you can see many of the districts are changing significantly.  Some are changed very little.  Both look gerrymandered significantly.  Both parties, after all, are about electing candidates and both will secure their relative significance.  And this stuff is about maintaining electability (or virtual non-loss) by an agreed-upon number for each party.  Some districts will be up for grabs but some will have a certain outcome.  That's what redistricting is all about.  So have the Republicans done anything that the Democrats have not done?  Na.  It's just that nobody likes to lose.

Stupidity and Willful Ignorance
Gary Younge describes the strong conservatives in the Republican party as "very wing of the party that had become so openly and virulently racist" that "they shouldn’t have" found a place for Herman Caine.  Does Younge even know what "conservative" means -- a definition that lies outside of the pro-communist folks he is writing for?  I hope he describes the anti-Jewish behavior (not the rhetoric) of Obama in the same terms -- but I won't hold my breath.

Then there is the ever-wrong voice of Fred Clarkson.  First he quotes Rick Perry:

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.  As president, I'll end Obama's war on religion.  And I'll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.

Now let's wait and see if there ever arises an actual definition for "dominionism" which is deemed acceptable outside of political punditry.  If it means "the institution of theological law" that might have a place.  Some might even extend it to "law first informed by theology" and going further, "law first informed by a theological ethic" though that is pretty vague and hard to control.

I wonder how corrections to bad history (teaching that all our founders were hard Deists), teaching that a government free of religious influence was the intention of all the founders, or that "democracy" trumps "republic" as our form of government.  There is much to fix.  And though Perry's remarks amount to little more than campaign blabber, they do not represent a theonomy.  There are reasonable voices which will continue to work against the ongoing secularization of culture -- which is in no way the domain of the federal government.  History has had enough of Rousseau's damage.