CHRISTMAS IN MAY

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Over the weekend, some liberal Christians got to do two of their most favorite activities in the world. They made a pilgrimage to the Holy of Holies and they also worked in a little vacuous moral posturing:

"Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was among religious leaders and activists gathered in New York May 2 at the Church Center for the United Nations for “For Peace and Human Needs Disarm Now!” — an interfaith convocation for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

“It’s a very important witness by many, many faith communities from around the globe to the difficulty and the problem of nuclear weapons,” said Jefferts Schori, when asked about the convocation’s importance. “People have gathered here in advance of the U.N. meetings this coming week to express their concern and to call for an end to the possibility of nuclear war.”

It wasn’t just the big names who attended this thing.

"Claire Gelinas and Deborah Crump didn’t walk to the May 2 convocation, but were inspired to come by peace walkers who rested at their church, First Universalist Church of Norway, Maine, they said in an interview before the convocation.

"Pessimism, Gelinas said, almost stopped her from making the trip to New York. “But then I decided I wanted to be around people who are feeling hopeful and who want to make the change happen,” she said.

"Crump had a different reason: “After I read that the U.S. is the only country in the world to have dropped a nuclear weapon, I felt it was my responsibility as a U.S. citizen to come,” she said."

I’ve just discovered the easiest job in the world. Liturgist for a universalist church. I guess you can probably do pretty much anything you want. This Sunday: readings from the great philosophers. Next Sunday: Pictionary!!

But I do hope that last part was a misquote or just inelegantly phrased or something. Because I’d hate to think that Ms. Crump decided to attend this charade only after she read somewhere that the US is the only country to have dropped a nuclear bomb.

I don’t even want to consider the possibility that Ms. Crump has only recently learned something I learned decades ago back in grade school. So whatever you do, don’t tell her about the other bomb we dropped. And let me break the news to her about President Roosevelt and the Brooklyn Dodgers.