Seems like for some people, there’s no issue so small that it can’t be used against Democrats and their healthcare reform bill. Among those people, of course, are Glenn Beck and Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Steve King, R-Iowa.

Their latest complaint? The way that a couple important votes have happened to run up against religious holidays. The Senate voted on its version of the legislation on the day before Christmas last year, and now it looks like the House will vote this Sunday. As Beck and King pointed out Thursday, this Sunday happens to fall during Lent. They weren’t happy about that.

“They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God,” King said during an appearance on Beck’s radio show. That led to this little rant from Beck:

Thank you for pointing this out. I thought of this the other day because I’ve been saying, “faith, hope and charity.” Faith has been perverted, and our hope — they’re trying to sell this hope that we’ll have faith in the government, that they’ll be charitable.

And I thought, “They are going to vote for this damn thing on a Sunday, which is the Sabbath, during Lent.” You couldn’t have said it better. Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and our hope and our charity that — this is an affront to God. And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, “Yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath.” But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done out of respect for God.

(Hat-tip to Think Progress.)

Separately, talking to conservative blogger Matt Lewis, Bachmann addressed the Senate’s vote last year, saying, “If you look at Scott Brown’s race for instance, he was down by about thirty points before Christmas. Harry Reid pushed this vote to Christmas Eve, and you can tie the polling to the polling for the demise of Martha Coakley and for the rise of Scott Brown … to the vote on Christmas Eve …. It seemed like something that was sacrilegious for Harry Reid to do.”

Were Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon still alive, they might have to be jealous of Rep. Steve King’s ability to put together an enemies list. The Iowa Republican, who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, certainly put together a comprehensive tally of villains for his speech.

Quoting Sun Tzu’s exhortation to “know thine enemy,” King said, “I want to define that enemy. They are liberals, they are progressives, they are Che Guevarians, they are Castroites, they’re Socialists. More enemies on this list: Gramscites — ring anybody’s bell? — Trotskyites, Maoists, Stalinists, Leninists, Marxists.” He went on to list a final enemy, Democratic Socialists, saying that President Obama is one.

Normally Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, opposes same-sex marriage simply because of his social conservative stance on things. That alone is enough for the congressman to take a particularly strong stance on the issue — after his state’s Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, he worried that Iowa would become “the gay marriage Mecca.”

But King’s got a creative new reason for his position. Via The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, some comments King made on conservative radio Wednesday:

If there’s a push for a socialist society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together living collectively off one pot of resources earned by everyone, this is one of the goals they have to go to, same sex marriage, because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation, they want access to public funds and resources.

Clearly, we’ve been paying too much attention to Michele Bachmann. Come on, people — there are other members of Congress out there just starved for attention and willing to say damn near anything that pops to mind in order to get it.

Like, say, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. As I noted on Friday, last week, in the wake of the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, King worried about the prospect of a “gay marriage Mecca” coming to Iowa. This week, he went further, worrying about civilization itself, according to the Iowa Independent.

As long as we’re on the subject of offensive analogies, let’s not let the day pass without a nod to Rep. Steve King, who took to the House floor this week to equate immigrants with cattle. Proposing a wire-topped fence along the border between the United States and Mexico, King said: “We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”