It appears from news reprots that President Bush will nominate Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Personally I’m a big fan of Condi’s and think she will make an excellent SecState. But I will watch with interest to see how the PC(USA) reacts.

Way back in the election of 2000, it was made public that Condi was a memebr of the PC(USA) although to read official PCUSA pubs you’d never know it. I’ve wrriten Presbyterians Today, the flagship PC(USA) pub, and been told that it is just too difficult to get an interview with her. Over the last four years, they’ve never been able to get an interview with her! Well, with all the overtures against Israel and fighting over homosexual ordination, I can wee why.

What concerns me most is that Condi could be a great asset to attract new members to the church. Our outrageously liberal leadership in Louisville, KY claim to be concerned that we do not have many African-American members. They claim that as Christians we should take action to seek social reform. But when presented with an African-American female committed to social reform who is a Christian and a member of the Presbyterian Church, they seem to be blind.

The truth is, and I would love my friend Vernon Broyles to counter, the PC(USA) is afraid and/or embarassed to admit that the PC(USA) can have an African-American female as a member who is both conservtive and Republican. It has to be a complete embarrassemtn to the likes of the left-leaning stated clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick that Condi is having a greater impact on the world than he is.

I love it. Condi is making the world safer for all of us. The PC(USA) is making the world safer for terrorist. Condi is interested in getting peace in the Middle East, the PC(USA) is interested in giving the ranch away to the Palestinians and sticking it to the Israelies at the same time. Condi is practicing Christianity, Kirkpatrick and Broyles are practicing liberalism. Yes, I know that is strong, but if Vern can essentially question my Christianity because I voted for Bush, I can question his because he is a liberal.

These are happy days for me. It looks like Condi will be Secretary of State and the PC(USA) will be spinning up the propoganda machine to ignore, or possibily even refute, the fact that she is a Presbyterian. Once again, I’ll wait for the Layman to come out with the story.