Dear Senator McCain:

I should like to use this opportunity to take you to task for your associating with a rather weird and unwholesome specimen of religious by name of Rev. Rod Parsley, whom you have appointed as "spiritual advisor."

If I may, I would like to call your timely attention to this article from Mother Jones explaining just how weird and unwholesome Rev. Parsley is--which, in brief, includes a long-running litany of homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and general intolerance. Not to mention being of that ilk pseudoreligious claiming that America was Divinely Ordained to be The One True Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies, and that said status is somehow @ "clear and present risk" because of such things as "acceptance of, and tolerance for," homosexuality, multiculturalism and diversity.

As Steven Reynolds @ the All Spin Zone blog explains:

This guy is anything but a man who believes in freedom of religion. Oh yeah, and John McCain should denounce him. But he won't. He's too afraid of offending the rabid radical right-wing religious right, even though those folks are going to bring him down in November. To me that means that John McCain hasn't the judgement to be President. He can't understand who the people are who are so divisive that they are the ones encouraging terrorists....

With that in mind, I would like you to Please Explain:

• why you would allow Rev. Parsley as "spiritual advisor" to your campaign, consciously aware all along of his bigoted and intolerant agenda and articles of faith;
• whether these same bigoted beliefs of Rev. Parsley would influence your Presidential campaign and its articles of faith; and
• what prevents you @ this time from disassociating yourself and your campaign from Rev. Parsley and his ministry vis-a-vis your Presidential campaign.

Not to mention the likelihood of your campaign appealing all the more to a vulnerable and easily-influenced element of society as is especially likely to accept, let alone embrace, such messages of intolerance, and to regard such as one with "Christian Patriot Love" if and when pushed to explain--unaware, all the while, that such could really be lemmings leading you to your own political destruction. Remember William Jennings Bryant's pandering to marginalised and vulnerable elements of society in his 1896 and 1900 Presidential bids (especially so that "Cross of Gold" speech in the former instance), only to lose to William McKinley in the end?

Hence, I ask you to Please Explain such associations you have weird and unwholesome for electoral purposes, and what prevents your recognising such dangerous associations all the while. Especially before what your ilk would call "those meddling bloggers" start picking up on this, and exploits such with consequences you don't want to hear about. (Or do you?) 

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