Matt Gunterman September 25th, 2007

Our Senator Mitch McConnell (R) always has his finger on the pulse of the nation. After all, why — on a day when Kentucky GM workers went on nationwide strike for the first time in over a generation to decry loss of job security and benefits, and GM bosses insisted that the government needs to do something about the health care crisis in the nation (health care cost GM $5.2 billion in 2005) — why worry about that health care crisis [and McConnell certainly doesn't as he's busy obstructing expanded health care to American children] when you’ve got a premier American university to criticize.

McConnell lashed out yesterday at Columbia University’s decision to allow Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R?) to speak to the student body. Of course, in introducing Ahmadinejad, the president of the university called him a “petty and cruel dictator,” and the audience laughed at his ludicrous claims.

However, Ahmadinejad had a lot to say to American conservatives. After all, the Iranian leader repeated no fewer than three times that his country didn’t suffer from the twin plagues of homosexuals and homosexuality.

Isn’t homosexuality one of the chief threats to the United States in the eyes of Republicans? Isn’t this lifestyle choice a sign of moral decay and the rot of empire? Didn’t the Roman empire fall because its soldiers were too busy engaged in homosexual acts to defend themselves from invading hordes?

If Iran has eliminated homosexuality from its borders, then perhaps Mitch McConnell and other Republicans should approach what Ahmadinejad has to say with an open mind. Perhaps they should think harder about what true theocracy is and whether their preferred Christian faith is simply inferior to Islam.

Think long and hard, Mitch.

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