The Religious Right has come out of the Closet

[Jesus_Ateo]

But now, even conservatives have to admit the Christian Right is everything its worst critics claimed it was. Here’s Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post:

"For years, Democrats accused Christian conservatives of being closet theocrats, seeking to impose Christianity on the country and refusing to accept, let alone embrace, American diversity. That was a generalization, but it turned out to be more true than not."

She quotes Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute as noting:

"One of the most astounding shifts in modern politics has been the utter transformation of white evangelical Protestants from being confident self-described ‘values voters,’ who measured candidates for office against a high bar of moral character, to anxious and unwavering Trump supporters who have largely dropped these standards for a candidate they believe will deliver policies that benefit them."


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/th...JjU4lYv6LrmpTbF1FK_xZjbm5qO7zoqWbh7O7EHXvG1V8

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

The Religious Right keep trying to use their religious doctrine to attack and abuse my fellow Americans. We have American politicians like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin who have called for abolishing the United States Constitution, and turning America into a Christian theocracy instead.

Republicans keep calling for laws to be passed to strip legal rights away from gays, lesbians, bisexuals, hermaphrodites and transexuals and reduce them to second class citizens. These calls to hurt millions of their fellow Americans are based on their religious beliefs. They want their religious doctrine to codified into our legal system.

They're also calling for laws to set back women's legal and reproductive rights back by 100 years, or more. Again, this is because they believe that their religious doctrine calls for men to have more rights than women.

They're also calling for science teachers in public schools to stop teaching science, because their religious beliefs demand that children believe that man was created by an invisible deity that created the first man out of dirt.

The religious right are not some sort of benevolent part of society, just quietly sitting on the sidelines and letting us all get along with out lives. They're an aggressive army of ignorant bullies who want to control the rest of us, and to impose cruel punishments on those who resist being controlled.

 

[jaF0]

What's with the sudden influx of years old IDs with very low post counts?

 

[TalkToMeInSB]

The only wall I want built is the one between church and state!