President Bush’s support for the Federal

Marriage Amendment is now being linked by the media to “The Passion of the

Christ,” and not in a complimentary way. Exhibit A, from today’s Boston

Globe, is this

analysis excerpted here:

But in choosing to wade so deeply into the cultural divide, Bush also gave a nod to the more than 45 percent of Americans who were likely to vote for him anyway — the same people in the evenly divided electorate to whom he reached out in his remarks before the Super Bowl last month, in his NASCAR visit in Florida, and in his expressing interest in seeing “The Passion of the Christ.”

The Globe connects the dots for you. Being “uncompassionate” (their

formulation) about gays is tied to enjoying NASCAR and wanting to see the

Jesus movie. The subtext is: “Look at the auto-racing, Jesus-loving

gay-bashers and the president who panders to them.” Exhibit B is today’s

hysterical Maureen Dowd screed, which implies

that Bush is in league with Jesus-loving, “Passion”-watching gay bashers who

secretly harbor a desire to bash Jews. Expect this theme to be repeated ad

infinitum from here through November. It’s Red vs. Blue all over again –

but this time, Blue is going for the jugular.