What a [...] Campfield is. If anything, he should be compared to the pro-slavery militants who vigorously opposed Wilberforce and the British abolitionists in the 1830s. Campfield is a reactionary demagogue. The most hopeful thing in that article was that his GOP colleagues damn him with such faint praise.

Campfield says most of his legislative proposals come from reading or listening and then thinking.

Oh, I'll bet they do. Here's one for the nightstand, X.

Sven,
The beauty of that document is that it rails against the sort of hypocrisy of Christian conservatives of the day that Campfield represent now. The same people who whine about "sexual immorality" today are the ones who used religion to defend the slave-based social order of the past. The true inheritors of Wilberforcian Christianity are people like the Christian Peacemakers and other radical anti-war elements, not social order-obsessed guardians of "family values." But if Campfield wants to believe that making it impossible for immigrants to send money back to their families is akin to abolitionism then, well, he's hopeless.

Yeah, it's pretty ironic that a Elmer Gantry type like Stacey X would invoke Wilberforce - probably because of that silly Amazing Grace movie.

Wilberforce had plenty of faults. He founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice, which engaged in all kinds of nasty bashing of the lower classes and demonization of art and literature in the name of virtue.

But there's little doubt he had a strong conscience and was committed to true Christian principles like charity; he gave at least 25% of his annual income to the poor.

When I read about Campfield I can't help but think of Ernie Chambers, who seems to be Stacey's exact opposite. Chambers is a longtime rabble-rousing senator in Nebraska's Unicameral.

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