Garrison Keilor and Peggy Noonan
Some people are getting all upset about Garrison Keilor’s latest remarks:
“I am now the chairman of a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians. Just a little project of mine. My feeling is that born-again people are citizens of heaven, that is where their citizenship is, is in heaven, it’s not here among us in America. …If born-again Christians are allowed to vote in this country, then why not Canadians?”
I thought it was funny when I read it on someone else’s blog, and I still do. And I am a born-again Christian. When someone gets serious about taking my citizenship away, I’ll get worried, but Keilor is just funny. It seems to me that the comment is a creative way to deal with the frustration of losing the election.
As Peggy Noonan says in her latest column, “could we relax a little?”
After all the Sturm und Drang of the past few weeks our country would benefit from an absence of sound. Next week we mark Thanksgiving. Today, in anticipation, and after our fractious election, we could declare National Settle Down Week. National Be Still Week. Or National Give It a Rest Week.
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