There's no religious position that is too extreme or too bizarre that you can't find at least a few believers who hold to it with all the sincerity and fervor that accompanies other religious beliefs. Case in point is Michael Vorbis, a Catholic who insists that the best form of government would be a Catholic Monarchy -- and that democracy is fundamentally bad.
This is not a position without foundation because it's essentially what the Catholic Church argued in the 19th century.
In the video ... released on a subsidiary of the network he founded, RealCatholicTV.com, for August 18, 2010 Voris declares: "Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed. I'm Michael Voris. There is an inherent problem with democracy. Actually, it's definitional; it's this: Everyone gets to vote. That's right. EVERYONE gets to vote. Consider for a moment..."
It quickly went downhill from there. Voris says that "ignorant" people vote for candidates who support abortion, gay rights and taxation for government services -- as if excessive taxation was never the hallmark of despotic of absolute monarchs - as indeed it was.
Voris denounces democracy because people who are not "faithful Catholics" and therefore are "ignorant" and likely to be "societal parasites" get to vote. Of course, when he says Catholic, he means �ber-orthodox traditionalist Catholic only. (He does not explain how even this kind of voting would work under the "benevolent dictatorship" of a "Catholic monarch" he also calls for.)
Source: Talk2Action
It would be easy to classify Michael Vorbis as a "crackpot," but however accurate that label might be it would be a mistake to completely dismiss and ignore him. As we have seen with the Republican Party over the past few years, even the craziest fringe ideas can become an article of faith for the mainstream in a relatively short period of time.
If a significant percentage of conservative evangelicals can come to believe that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen or is a Muslim, what's stopping them from coming to believe that most people should be denied a right to vote or that a form of monarchy would be preferable to democracy? What makes monarchism too crazy to adopt as compared to birtherism?
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