Frankie Schaffer bails on the GOP? WOW

More formally known as Frank, and the son of the early-movement highly influential conservative evangelical philosopher-theologian Francis Schaffer, Frank wrote the Morning News to announce he was officially throwing away his GOP membership. Seems to be a lot of that going around recently.

What pushed him over the line was the Sen. George Allen robo e-mail all but calling challenger James Webb nine kinds of pervert.

The Webb e-mail is the embodiment of the cynical Republican strategists, some of whom must know the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Was Agatha Christie a murderer because she wrote about murder?

According to the Allen camp's logic, God would be a pedophile, too. After all, we Christians believe God inspired the Bible. And God-the-author chose to include the "sleazy" story about Lot offering to send out his young virgin daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom.

The Bible has masturbation scenes, rape, pedophilia and God's favorite man – King David – warming himself with a young virgin in his old age. He's the same man God tells us committed murder after he indulged his peeping Tom fantasies. …

My wife and I have reached the tipping point. We plan to go to town hall to dump our Republican voter registration and reregister as independents. I don't care anymore what party someone is in. These days, what I care about is what they're made of.

When you lose someone like this, you know you’re in trouble. And, though many run-Bush-up-the-flagpole-and-salute hardcore conservative evangelicals (not to mention fundamentalist ostriches) will march blithely on, many other evangelicals will not. They’ve just been looking for a voice telling them it’s OK to get off the GOP bandwagon.