I have tried to avoid writing about state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, since he is not my representative. He is such a silly little man, obsessed as he is with his racism, xenophobia and homophobia. I assumed his ability to reason must have been altered by lack of oxygen caused by all those automobile exhaust fumes hanging over Route 228 and Cranberry.

If he had not reiterated and embellished his profoundly bigoted and guttural statement first proclaimed on the floor of the General Assembly, I would have just continued to chuckle at the comic relief he provides after enduring seven years of the Bush charnel house. Sadly, Metcalfe has supported this senseless slaughter of Pennsylvania citizens and a million others, from my read of his comments on the war in Iraq. That is up to his constituents to decide.

Metcalfe's statement on the front page of the June 20 Butler Eagle is a declaration of hate that was preemptively condemned by the very man he deified in his House "no" vote against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community welcoming resolution. The Golden Rule and the Beatitudes both attributed to Jesus were profanely trashed by Metcalfe twice in one week.

Metcalfe is one of those men who is dancingly proud of his ignorance. The history of these United States would be missing one of its most dynamic documents had Metcalfe been in Philadelphia for the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The author of that history-changing document, Thomas Jefferson, did not believe in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth. He did acknowledge and accept the moral teachings of "that reform rabbi," as Jefferson called him. We can assume Metcalfe would have vetoed the Declaration of Independence; he has attempted to ignore the Constitution over the years when it contradicts his personal beliefs.

Using the logic of his Harrisburg dissent, Metcalfe would have stoned Benjamin Franklin, the true inventor of this country, for Franklin's rational doubts about revealed monotheistic religion. Metcalfe also would have warily challenged John Adams for his fear of that storm of reactionary religious fervor that took place in this country early in the 19th Century.

It would appear that Metcalfe is densely unfamiliar with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and much of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It seems a futile task to ask him to read the Quran, let alone the "Descent of Man."