Article describing how 3 people were expelled from a Social Security event because they arrived in a car sporting a “No blood for Oil” bumper sticker.  They were expelled despite claims that they had not been in anyway disruptive…claims the White House does not dispute.  What I found interesting was this quote:

"If someone is coming to an event to disrupt it, they are going to be asked to leave," McClellan said.

So, to summarize the argument of the White House and it’s supporters:  You should be able to hold a rally or whatever with like-minded people and promote your ideas of what is good and right in the world without disruptive, intrusive, rude people coming in and getting in your face with bumper stickers and tee-shirts that disagree with you and are offensive to you…right?  You should be able to evict anyone from an event you’ve planned for you and your kind just because they have come there to disagree with you…right? 

Presumably…and stop me if I’m way off base in this assumption…the religious right agrees that the president should be able to throw dissenters out of public events because they came there just to demonstrate their disagreement with the purpose of the event…and further, that it’s not over the top to threaten them with arrest and criminal charges as happened at this event and others like it around the country.

Let me make this clear.  These people were threatened with arrest if they didn’t leave the event because a bumper sticker on their car, which was parked outside the event, was interpreted as being against the president…on a topic that wasn’t even under discussion at the event in question.

So.  Here we have an article complaining about how wrong it is to single out “Christians” for “persecution” just because they want to charge into the center of a crowd at a public event being held to assert gay rights.  All they wanted to do was go into the middle of this crowd of people with signs depicting the flames of hell and bullhorns to scream about how they are all going to hell.

Beyond that, they are indignant that these “Christians” were arrested, charged and tried with incitement to riot and other civil disturbance charges just because they went into a crowd of people from a persecuted minority and deliberately confronted them with messages that were insulting, hateful, condemning and intolerant.

Imagine that.

Now, you may wonder why I bother with this.  And that is a good question.

The reason I point this out is that this is emblematic of the fatal flaw of the current state of the conservative mindset.  The ability to tolerate vast swaths of contradiction and double standard based on emotionalism, irrationality, and bigotry.  They are certain that they are right, and that their leadership is always right, and they do not question or see contradiction because they are not mentally disciplined, thoughtful, or honest.  This leads to flawed thinking, error and terrible, terrible results for everyone.