The job before democracy is to rid itself
of such canaille; if it fails, they will devour it.
H.L. Mencken
Matt Staver, quite possible the most un-self-aware person in America, and the lawyer who argued with a straight face that Kim Davis had a conscience right to remain in her job while refusing to do it, says that Houston mayor Annise Parker should resign her office if she is unhappy with the voter repeal of HERO, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
Saying that Davis has been raised up by God to take a stand against gay marriage, Staver has repeatedly dismissed arguments that Davis should resign from her elected position if she cannot or will not carry out its basic duties, so we were rather surprised to hear Staver declare that Houston mayor Annise Parker ought to resign from her position if she is unhappy that voters recently repealed the city’s non-discrimination ordinance.
On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Staver’s cohost Matt Barber asserted that Parker was so upset by the election results that she is now essentially urging companies to boycott her own city, prompting Staver to, without irony, declare that Parker ought to simply resign and “let somebody else do” the job if she feels that she cannot represent the “taxpayers and citizens” that she was elected to serve.
One wonders, of course, is Matt Staver an unaware, blinking-neon hypocrite? A cynical, opportunistic whore who will say anything? And who are the pitiful morons who send him money? What’s wrong with them?
It doesn’t matter. All there really is to know is that there is no reasoning with such people, that they can never be brought into the communion of reason and goodwill that makes civilization possible. They must be defeated and put out — period.