Reply #6: Renfroe is a horror. [View All]

[madamesilverspurs]

He was elected, in large part, because of rather large infusions of campaign cash from the land of the Dobsonites in the southern part of the state. The same "donor pool" has influenced other elections, and some of their tactics have been sufficiently shady to come under court scrutiny.

We're just down the road from where Matt Shepherd was murdered. Renfroe isn't at all concerned that his remarks could energize the kind of treacherous thinking that's just waiting for an excuse to act. But he should be concerned that we were able to take on Musgrave, she of the notorious "defense of marriage" inanity, and remove her from office. He has now guaranteed that his tenure will be similarly curtailed. And when that happens he will, of course, see himself as a victim of evil liberals, martyred in the cause of righteousness. In my circle of friends there are a great many truly righteous people of faith, and they are genuinely horrified by Renfroe. Sadly for all of us, Renfroe (and those like him) don't know the difference between righteousness and pompous posturing.

I have already written to him, pointing out that the same book of the Bible on which he bases his hate also requires that children who sass their parents be stoned to death; I asked him if we could expect equal scriptural thoroughness in the way he runs his family. Not that I expect a response, his attention has never been directed to to any but the rabid right among his constituents.

By the way, Renfroe also asserts (based on the Bible, of course) that women are only here to help men.