The Republicans have turned into the new Puritans. Not content to be small government and low tax proponents they venture out into the quagmire of debates on morality. Take at look at the statement made yesterday by a Republican candidate for office here in Virginia. Former federal prosecutor John Brownlee said yesterday at his campaign kickoff that “… I will speak out on the ‘life’ issue and do everything in my power to try to teach the next generation about human life and when it begins,” said Brownlee, adding that he believes human life begins at conception.”

If you think he was running for church elder you’d be wrong. He wants to be our next Attorney General, charged with rendering advice to State Agencies, and enforcing the laws of the Commonwealth and the Nation. His views, obviously a product of his religion, motivate everything he does including a widely criticized and failed prosecution of the president of the D-Day Memorial, Richard Burrow. These new Puritans have a fanatical zeal about them that reminds one of the C.S. Lewis quote on sanctimonious tyranny I posted earlier.

Lord save us from those who believe in you too much.