Tulsa's Loony Christianist Mayor

Wow.

Anna Falling, Mayor of Tulsa, is a complete lunatic. She believes, among other things, that "putting a Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is No. 1 in importance among city issues that include violent crime, budget woes and bumpy streets."

This sort of thing us almost always an attempt to express some kind of cultural power. It's a way of saying, to non-Christians, "this is our country, and it is not yours." Of course, it's also a way of reinforcing--to themselves--their fantasy that this is a Christian nation. This kind of thing is, of course, nauseating in the extreme, and, inconsequential though it might seem, it actually needs to be fought tooth and nail and to the bitter end.