I was hoping to publish a warm-hearted Christmas article and get ready for the celebratory season of year-end family activity. I will still publish my gratitude for Advent soon – probably before week’s end.

The irrational and irreverent language of the No on 8 mob is a portent of future persecution of anyone of any tradition who attempts to defend morality in the public square.

It appears that our next President will be Senator Barak Hussein Obama. I am not happy about this, but the people have spoken and on January 20 we will peacefully inaugurate a new President.

Journalist Tom Brokaw, appearing on the Charlie Rose Show recently, asserted that, “We do not really know the universe of Barak Obama…how he really sees the world.”

The moral and religious rhetoric is heating up at we approach the election of a new President. McCain’s faltering efforts have been reversed by the galvanizing choice of Governor Palin while the glow of Obama’s Olympic acceptance speech has been replaced by sarcastic remarks about lipstick and swine.