The ravages of religiosity

Kyle City Limits

by BRENDA STEWART

It is with absolutely no pleasure that I watch as the Republican primary process implodes. What once was the party of relative moderation and autonomy has been allowed to morph into a bevy of pot banging caricatures, hooting about Jesus and wrapping themselves in a mutant version of the Constitution – the one that gives equal rights to every American except for those who fall outside the narrow scope of Christian evangelicals.

I’m not sure how religion got so embedded in this political process in the first place. Sure, I’ve been gnashing my teeth for coming on a decade about our misfortune of having Gov. Rick Perry’s snout directly up the religious rights’ alley.