Kennedy and “the dream”

Like Lew, I am sick of the idolatry that took place at the Ted Kennedy funeral today.  The article I read about it pretty much says it all:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy went toward his final rest alongside brothers John and Robert Saturday evening, celebrated for “the dream he kept alive” for four decades after they perished.

On a day marking the end of a political era, Kennedy was eulogized by President Barack Obama at a Catholic church in his home state of Massachusetts, and his funeral motorcade was later driven past flags lowered to half-staff in his memory at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

“Go now, to your place of rest. And meet the Lord, your God,” said the Rev. Daniel Coughlin, the House chaplain, as the motorcade came to a brief stop before thousands of mourners gathered on the Capitol steps and grounds.

And what was “the dream” of which they spoke?  It was the “dream” of empowering the state to confiscate most of our property, to have the power to spy on us, to have IRS agents looking at all of our financial records (Kennedy claimed to be for “privacy,” but “financial privacy” did not fall into that category), and to have unlimited abortion on demand.  His “life’s work” was to have the government dictate medical care to all of us.

Jim Wallis, of course, has been in the forefront of “lionizing” Kennedy, and one of the accusations that Wallis has made against the rest of us is that we are engaged in “idolatry” because we believe that the state should keep its hands off us.  Of course, Wallis’s True God IS the state, and Ted Kennedy was the symbol of that god.  The whole thing makes me ill.

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5:04 pm on August 29, 2009