Every now and then, I write something serious.  This is now and then.

I was at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, this morning.

While visiting the Museum, tears came into my eyes when I thought about those 9 teenagers who were threatened, spit on, and hated.  I wonder if I would have had the courage and faith to do what they did, or to allow my children to.  It was a different world in 1957.

Or, was it?

On the walls of the museum, I saw Governor Orval Faubus argue about state’s rights.   His call for the white people of Arkansas to come to Little Rock to defend Central High School was not, absolutely not, about states rights.  It was about fear turned into hatred.  It was about racism.

The words of Faubus and his supporters covered the walls of the museum.

And, they sounded oh so familiar.

They were calling it judicial activism and states’ rights back then, too.

Glenn Beck is using the same arguments that Governor Faubus did.

In 1958, a poll by Time Magazine named Faubus one of the top ten most trusted people in the world, right behind the Pope.

The good news is that nobody trusts the Pope or Governor Faubus any more.

And the day will come, yes it will, when Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and Glen Beck are relegated to the status of Orval Faubus: a sore and hateful place in American history.