Though this is wonderful news, you would not know it if you lived down here in Dumbutt where our past is filled with dinosaur hunting and our immediate future is concerned with a physical battle in the sky between Jesus and Satan and everyone in the world dead except a few Southern Baptists.
Though Jerry Falwell is good and dead, Pat Robertson adding senility to his hatefulled crazyness and Mike Huckabee front and center showing us just how nutty Fundamentalist Religious is, it is more natural attrition by death that moves us forward than anything else. Some say our kids are vain and shallow, that be as it may but they are also far more tolerant of ethnicity, race and homosexuality, and far better informed than their parents and grandparents. So at least time is on our side.