Politics: "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"

“…when you cry out on the Black Man from Boston, you wake Nicholas Scratch, and he will surely come to call on you.”-Liz Marcs

Senator Santorum, the junior Republican senator from Pennsylvania and 2008 presidential hopeful, is at it again. This time he is calling for the "new evangelization" of the Catholic Church, a la Vatican II. Having seen first hand the atrocities perpetrated around the world by the Catholic Church, it is with a shudder that I contemplate any more active role by the Church in daily affairs of the citizens of this country.

But don't take my paltry word for it. Read Santorum's ridiculous call for the laity to oversee all activities of the Church in America in his July 12 Catholic Online op-ed piece “Fishers of Men.” Then read this literary counterpoint by Liz Marcs in her LiveJournal entry “When You Wake The Black Man from Boston, Nicholas Scratch Will Surely Come To Call.” It's an eye-opener, lyrically phrased.

If you have forgotten the tale behind the references, swing by and read an online copy of the Steven Vincent Benet short story “The Devil and Danial Webster,” just to trigger your synapses.

Via [Teresa Nielsen Hayden]: Have a Salem?