Apparently Wisconsin’s governor Walker is taking on the Almighty Himself. Who knew? “Pastor Dan”, that’s who:
Below the fold is the text of a joint press release from Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and Madison Urban Ministry, two Wisconsin religious groups who have been active in leading protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s agenda. I am mostly passing this on to note that there are religious voices involved in this fight. I have yet to see any faith groups take up Walker’s side, but perhaps I’ve just missed them…
…while I think what we have here is bang-up, I do believe that it could be even stronger by reframing it as an issue of justice, rather than morality. The latter is a very weak frame that creates a “dog bites man” storyline. The former, especially if it’s pitched in terms of God coming down on the side of the working people (see: Exodus), is much stronger and creates the opposite storyline. When was the last time any religious leaders on the left had the chutzpah to tell a sitting governor he was going up against God herself?
The ‘God herself’ is a classic—both in terms of gender and lower case h—of the genre.
Thank you, Pastor Dan!
Given the Catholic Church’s take on illegal aliens and this joker, I’m starting to warm up to the Jacobins’ views on religion.
A further demonstration–if any were needed–that the religious right has no lock on being irritating.