Alabama's Republican governor, faced with a huge budget deficit, is proposing remedies that might actually pass the "WWJD" test:

• Raising taxes on those who have the most (large corporate farms and families with higher incomes, as in "from those who have much will be expected much")
• Raising the tax threshhold so the very poor don't have to pay so much tax, since Alabama taxes the poorest people the most harshly in the nation ("from those who have little will be expected little", taking care of the poor, etc.)
• Extending the school year to the national average

So this Republican governor is in favor of eliminating a deficit and caring for the poor, and says that doing so is a voter's Christian duty. "According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other, and help take care of hte poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5000 an income tax."

So guess who opposes this:

• Farm and timber groups that supported the governor's campaign
• Two of the governor's own GOP cabinet members, who resigned because he's "not the kind of governor" voters thought they were getting (i.e., willing to support business and wealthy people on the backs of the poor)
• Voters in households with annual income of less than $30,000, even though the plan would cut their taxes
• The Christian Coalition

So now that it's on the line, we see where today's Jesus-as-a-weapon conservative movement really stands: against the poor, against the undereducated, and against the overtaxed, but firmly in favor of big business, deficit spending, and giving more money to the rich.

Today's GOP made its choice between the Bible and politics long ago, and the Bible lost. They just hope that by shouting "Christian values" loud enough, you won't notice. Here's to Alabama Governor Bob Riley for practicing what he preaches - literally.

I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.