The Employee Free Choice Act: It's worse than the gays!

Can we call for a moratorium on gratuitously comparing things we don't like to Islamic terrorists?

A few weeks ago, we had a Mormon GOP state Senator in Utah saying that gays were the biggest threat facing America, akin to Muslim terrorists. And now we have one of the top billionaire hotel magnates in Vegas claiming at that the Employee Free Choice Act is actually tied with Radical Islam for the biggest threat to the world.

It's just so hard to keep your number one status nowadays. I really need to talk to the cabal.

Now, I have no problem making a valid comparison to anything. I've written before about my annoyance with some Jewish groups who freak out every time anything is compared to the Holocaust. And while, yes, it's a bit ridiculous to compare a tax bill in the Senate to the Holocaust, not every comparison is invalid - and in any case, as the old saying go, it's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. And the same goes for "Islamic terrorists." I've called the religious right "America's Taliban." And I would again. I didn't sloppily choose the allusion simply because the Taliban is bad and the religious right is bad. I did it because both are uber-conservative religious zealots who oppose modernity, and who wish to force the majority in their own country, and the world, to live under their own draconian, backward, discriminatory rules. It's a real comparison based on multiple, actual details.

Anyway, back to the Employee Free Choice Act. SEIU has done a cute video poking fun at the "End of the World" crowd. (Oh, and for those who are curious, the Employee Free Choice Act simply makes it easier for employees to unionize if they so choose.)