From the Internet - By John F. Harris and Mike Allen, Washington Post Staff Writers:

For a full decade, the 58-year-old DeLay's career has prospered because he was usually right in this calculation, say legislators from both parties who have watched him in action. DeLay could be himself -- a partisan with a zeal for ideological combat, a taste for high living and intense religious conviction -- in ways that made him exceptionally powerful in Congress but not especially recognizable to the public beyond.

Now is this EXACTLY what I am talking about. The Washington Post writers refer to Tom DeLay's "intense religious conviction" with no qualifications. To my way of thinking, this is the same thing as describing Osama bin Laden as having "intense religious conviction" when most people will agree that he is actually a religious fundamentalist whose perverted and warped sense of Islam justifies the definitely un-Islamic atrocities he commits in the name of his "God."

Tom DeLay does the same thing. He wears his religion like a badge for everyone to see. Far too many people cannot recognize that although he SAYS he is a pious person, his ACTIONS are decidedly un-religious, or at least un-Christian. Whether he really believes his own strange and selfish version of Christianity is the truth, or whether he is pandering to the large number of ignorant "Christians" who are incapable of separating a man's WORDS from his all-too-obvious DEEDS is debatable. I'm betting he truly believes God is talking to him, but he isn't above advertising his personal tete-a-tete with God to garner votes from those who don't know better.