text: There is an apocryphal story about Senator Kelly meeting with Sr Prejean 15 or so years ago. She was in Juneau to lobby against a capital punishment bill that Kelly and other hypocrites were pushing. Kelly, you will recall, wanted to give the government he hates the power to kill people. Consistent with his rather perverse love of symbolism, Kelly, I am told, made sure to have prominently displayed on his desk, between the nun and himself, a toy guillotine. 
  Dear Pete: life and death is not a joke in the context of public policy. 
  
  Jesus was not a macho tough guy taking nails for God; he was a man who led a political movement against the established religion that favored the rich and powerful and got killed because of it. And in the midst of the loneliness of his own death he cried out to God in doubt and fear: "My Lord, my Lord...why hast thou forsaken me?"
  
  Christ's service was to afflict the comfortable and to comfort the afflicted. Not so, Pete Kelly. 
  
  Thank you, Shannyn.