‘Pervert-Pandering Politicians’ Protested

As the David Oh-Jack Kelly race for the last at-large City Council seat drags on, new news is coming out about some of the finer parts of the race. Somebody who didn’t like Kelly — not Oh, by all accounts — didn’t want him to get elected. So he put these cards on the windshields of parishoners at St. Christopher’s in Somerton.

The “VOTER ALERT,” printed on a yellow index card, reads: “Councilman Jack Kelly voted with the homosexual lobby to remove the Boy Scouts from their city rent-free headquarters. The Scouts can remain only if they agree with the homosexual agenda which would promote sodomy to our youth. Not too long ago this would have caused Jack Kelly to be tarred and feathered for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Today, all we can do is to retire him from City Council. Distributed by COPPP - Citizens Opposed to Politicians Who Pander to Perverts, P.O. Box 57040, Philadelphia, PA 19111. ANYONE BUT KELLY.” An Alexander Pope poem, “Vice,” graces the other side.

Yes, it reads like a parody of a right-ring screed, but that doesn’t mean whoever wrote it wasn’t serious. But, hey, at least they chose a decent poem, I guess.

Even the Monsignor’s Miffed: Who are “Citizens Opposed to Politicians Who Pander to Perverts?” [Heard in the Hall]