Rules for the Religious Right

Rising Hegemon has come up with a spiffy set of rules for the Religious Right. I've shamelessly copied a few of them here, but I encourage you to go read the entire brilliant ruleset!

1. If any member of the religious right has been divorced, they must sit out of any conversation directly or indirectly about so-called "family values." Duct tape will be placed on the mouth of a religious rightist if they have divorced a spouse while she (or he) was sick or in the hospital, just to let everyone know that they have nothing meaningful to add to a discussion of family values.

2. Randomly announced blood and urine tests will be administered to all self-proclaimed spokespersons of the religious right who try to tell all of us what to do. If you believe that you know what the rest of us should do, think, and feel... then we have the right to know what you have been doing. Fair is fair, right?

3. All well known leaders of the religious right will be evaluated by three separate mental health care professionals who are (again) randomly selected out of a list of respected practioners. Important point: Your pastor, priest, cleric, etc... do not count. Neither does Dr. Phil or Oprah.