Permit me to update what I said about Dubya, the time-wasting, never-to-pass, marriage amendment (which even CATO -- in rare agreement with the Center for American Progress -- believes to be an abomination), and Methodism yesterday ... it's not that I don't think George W. Bush has a God complex -- it's that I don't think that his particular brand of religiosity is of the James Dobson - Jerry Falwell brand, which is characterized by an outsized desire to impose their psychosis on others. Dobson et. al. want their particular obsessions, and gay marriage in particular -- to be exorcised by the highest worldy law they can get theri hands on. George W. Bush, on the other hand, strikes me as the kind of man whose religiosity is purely self-centered: he thinks God speaks to him, thinks everything he does is at God's instruction, and is convinced he wield's God's power on earth. But he doesn't necessarily think you should live the way he thinks God wants you to. In fact, he probably really doesn't care how you live (nor does he necessarily live entirely right himself... but then again, as God's man, he can pretty much do as he likes.)
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