Bush blamed for Anglican turmoil

Kari Jenson Gold as written a piece entitled, "Blame It on W" (First Things, Tuesday, August 7, 2007). It begins like this:

We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a little slow to understand the rules, but, living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, we pretty soon got the hang of it. To take an obvious example, even if Bush didn’t actually fly the planes into the Twin Towers (and the jury’s still out on that one,) he certainly was responsible for getting the guys so worked up in the first place. Or here’s another one: It wasn’t immediately clear to us that W had caused Hurricane Katrina. But then we remembered that he had refused to sign that Kyoto thing and was, ipso fipso, responsible for global warming and hence Katrina. You see how this is played? Turns out he really is The Decider. About everything.

For instance, if my local grocery store runs out of duck confit, there is no doubt in my mind that this is because Bush has allowed the store’s employees to live in deplorable conditions without universal health care—thereby causing them all to call in sick last Wednesday. Do I even need to mention the effects of global warming on ducks?

Call me naïve, but it hadn’t immediately occurred to me that the dissolution of the Anglican Communion should also be laid directly at the feet of George Bush....

And ends like this:

Finally, Bishop Roskam adds this, “The preoccupation with male homosexuality has to do with issues of maleness. . . . The undergirding issue is patriarchy.”

Now do you get it? “Our country’s recent aggression in the Middle East,” and “issues of maleness” (W, Cheney, Rummey, et al.) are the real causes of the turmoil in the Anglican Communion. George W. Bush—J’accuse!

Enjoy!


[Hat tip to E.E.]