Excellent overall.
Have one problem with it, though - the Megadeth references.
Dave Mustaine is by no means an evil man and deserves no such inferences. The man's life, although hedonistic for many years, is pretty thoroughly documented and most of his songs are - quite ironically - about the sorts of people that lead people and nations into ruin. No one in the band has ever worshipped satan.
Mustaine's preference for seeing a republican in office certainly deserves any scorn you'd like to dish out. But his inclusion here is unnecessarily misleading given the general point of the article. With the low-brow Megadeth stereotypes excised from the article, it's a much more powerful one resting entirely on the clash between the paradox of Biblical and Christian teachings and the beliefs of santorum.
The inclusion of inaccurate information (in this case, the malign of Dave Mustaine) always hurts your point. RJ, you could have done better.
I'm a Megadeth fan (obviously) as well as an Eskow fan. I feel sorry for Dave and what his addiction to Christianity has done with his outlook on government. However, Mustaine's appreciation for santorum's handling of his ill daughter is completely incongruent with the point.
BTW, I'd love to see a separate, far more compelling article on Mustaine - in the context of the commonality of drug addicts whose "cure" is really another addiction: to religion.
[Comment written while listening to "Symphony of Destruction"... loud...]
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