Erwin Roberts Smacks Yarmuth Over Christmas/Ramadan Votes

In an email sent today, Erwin Roberts took his opponent, Rep. John Yarmuth (D - KY / San Francisco) to task over his vote to recognize Islam as one of the world's great religions, but not to pay Christianity the same respect.

Roberts said:

Last week, my opponent, John Yarmuth, again demonstrated how out of touch he is with the people of the Louisville's 3rd Congressional District by refusing to support House Resolution 847, a resolution "recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith." Yet he gladly supported House Resolution 635, which recognized the Muslim holiday Ramadan and the Islamic faith as one of the great religions of the world.

Then Roberts hit Yarmuth hard:

By his votes, Mr. Yarmuth has shown that he does not grasp one of the most fundamental principles of our American Constitution: Government must treat all religions with equal respect. Everyone in the 3rd District -- particularly Christians -- should be offended that their elected representative has, by his official actions, elevated one religion over another. Everyone in the 3rd District should be disturbed that Mr. Yarmuth chose to ignore a fundamental constitutional principle in order to play sectarian favorites. And until the voters of the 3rd District remove him from office next November, the message to Mr. Yarmuth should be loud and clear: At least for now, he represents all the people of the 3rd Congressional District, including Christians.

Wow.

Erwin is encouraging everyone who is disturbed by Yarmuth's votes to donate some amount of money to his campaign, so that his message can be communicated loud and clear in the fall of 2008. You can do that here.

HR 847 has made waves nationwide, including here, although thus far Louisville's MSM has mostly protected Yarmuth and his nonsensical votes.

Props to John Rott for the awesome photo.