Why Rev. Pilch, you good Pharisee you. How nice to have you back. How could it be plagiarism if I credited you fully for the phrase?
Since you've chosen to grace us with your theologically astute presence, perhaps you could analyze this statement by sometimes heir-apparent GWB.
For George W Bush, a man who, in large part because of his famous name, shows up in most polls these days as the very early front-runner for a Republican Presidential nomination battle that is still more than a year away, it is an interesting story to choose to relate. Bush says it explains in part why he urged an end to "name calling" this summer when a fracas broke out over his party's decision to bar a gay Republican group from setting up a booth at the G.O.P state convention.
"There are some great admonitions in the Bible, talking about, you know; don't try to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye when you've got a log in your own," Bush says. "I'm mindful of that." (NYT Magazine, Sept. 13, 1988)
Maybe you could write to GWB and explain about the Pharisees to him, tell him which verses are relevant and which belong in the dustbin of history. Of course, with GWB's filthy tolerance of social deviant gay Republicans, I imagine you wouldn't want to come in very close contact with him. Might get your pristine clean mind a little smudged, what with the various heretical Bible interpretations and unclean social associations. |
