A few weeks ago, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was pilloried for calling the Republican Party "pretty much a white, Christian party."
(He also said that many in the GOP had "never made an honest living," which is a pretty stupid thing to say and probably just as applicable to his own party)
Yet John Danforth is now saying pretty much the same thing. The former Republican senator from Missouri notes that, "Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians."
Danforth's comments are noteworthy because he's a moderate and civilized, a species increasingly rare both within his party and in politics in general. In addition to being well-respected in Republican circles, he also had the unenviable task of serving the current president as ambassador to the UN; so he can hardly be dismissed as anti-Bush.
As well-respected Republican, a Bush appointee and a retired Episcopal priest from the heart of Red America, his warning against the theocratic aims of some in his own party can't be easily waved away as the incoherent ramblings of a so-called atheist, Christian-hater from the coast.
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