You saw that too, eh? Santorum also was on Bryan Fisher's show for an interview. You know Bryan Fisher; the spokesman for the American Family Association (designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) who regularly rages against Muslims, liberals, women, and homosexuals.
Oh yes, I wouldn't have been able to miss that introduction if I tried.
Ah yes, Bryan Fisher. I see him interviewed from time to time. I usually change the channel or leave the room. Few people make the hair on my arms stand on end, but he would be one of them. And I've learned not to ignore visceral reactions on the rare occasions I have them.
I do keep track more or less what Southern Poverty Law Center has to say about hate groups, mostly as a habit I built many years ago. They have useful fact-based information on all sorts of groups, whether their "inspiration" is from a twisted view of some religion or racial or just totally crazy political.
When someone is a serious candidate for office of the president of the United States, you can't dismiss these people as crazy, peripheral Christians anymore.
Well, I certainly can't get worked up about the supposed threat of "sharia law" here in the U.S., given the current state of affairs here.
But we've been living under some limited Christian laws for years now.
I grew up with blue laws. They were justified by Christian beliefs and nothing else.
Oh, I made a serious mistake asking after church years ago why all the stores had to be closed on Sunday, because when were Jews supposed to be able to shop for things if they worked M-F during store hours? (That was when the sidewalks rolled up at 5pm so much so I think it was Ezra Pound wrote a scathing poem about the place.)
It was only last year that the Georgia State House allowed people to vote on whether to allow Sunday alcohol sales. There is
zero reason to ban alcohol sales on Sunday except those directly related to the ideas of a subset of Christians about what everyone should and should not be doing on a Sunday.
And of course there's the recent discussion of law settled from back when I was a child. The stuff coming to be called the "war on women." Sorry, but those views come from a certain
religious quarter and it isn't Muslims. It's nice to know those good imposers of their holy religious law might be able to ensure my daughter is not able to function well enough to ever support herself. Very kindly of them to do that.
The real worry is not about Christians or about Muslims, or anyone else...
except those who preach violence and hatred.
And spread lies about others to encourage others to join them in their world of darkness.
