Prominent Christian Republican is fed up:

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 2:11 PM on November 2, 2006.

There's not much I can add to this unmistakably clear letter from Frank Schaeffer, whose father was an associate of the Reagans, Bushes, and Falwells, on the eve of his repudiation of the Republican Party. The letter begins:

I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican.

On all those counts, I was disgusted by an e-mail I just received that's being circulated by campaign supporters of Republican George Allen, who's trying to retain his Senate seat in Virginia.

The message goes like this: "First, it was the Catholic priests, then it was Mark Foley, and now Jim Webb, whose sleazy novels discuss sex between very young teenagers. ... Hmmm, sounds like a perverted pedophile to me! Pass the word that we do not need any more pedophiles in office."

Schaeffer goes on to praise Democrat Jim Webb's service, novels, and the fact that his son is currently serving in the military, before declaring that:

[E]nough is enough. I've had it with Republican smears.

The Webb e-mail is the embodiment of the cynical Republican strategists, some of whom must know the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Was Agatha Christie a murderer because she wrote about murder?

According to the Allen camp's logic, God would be a pedophile, too. After all, we Christians believe God inspired the Bible. And God-the-author chose to include the "sleazy" story about Lot offering to send out his young virgin daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom.

The Bible has masturbation scenes, rape, pedophilia and God's favorite man – King David – warming himself with a young virgin in his old age. He's the same man God tells us committed murder after he indulged his peeping Tom fantasies.

Lucky for God-the-author that He's not running against George Allen.

Tagged as: republicans, evangelicals, jim webb, election06, george allen

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.