Pakistan?

As much as I admire Bob Hockett, I was not wild about his "Republican Party as Pakistan" post to which Michael Perry recently called our attention.  Given how thoughtful and helpful Bob's posts have been here at MOJ, I am choosing to believe that the "Pakistan" post is actually the work of an uncharitable partisan who has stolen Bob's password, and not of the irenic and amiable Bob Hockett.  After all, the post traffics in the tired (and, frankly, hurtful) claim that social-conservatives in the American political arena can be helpfully, non-insultingly analogized to the "theocratic militant[s]" who throw acid on girls in Afghanistan, and I can't see how such trafficking actually does much for dialogue among people who proceed from shared faith commitments to, perhaps, different policy-applications of those commitments.