“Christians, says the Declaration’s preamble, were the ones who rescued abandoned babies in trash heaps in ancient Rome, tended to the sick during the plagues, ended slavery in the West, uplifted the poor, created the conditions for democracy, and ushered in women’s suffrage. Their bizarre self-righteousness in claiming the mantle of all the great things that have happened in history makes you wonder if these modern moral crusaders have a pathological need to feel that they are good people, which is usually the first sign that they have reason to worry they are not. (Sure enough, one of the three drafters of the document is Nixon’s former special counsel, Chuck Colson, convicted of obstructing justice surrounding the Watergate scandal.)”
— Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire and Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center, from his response to the radical religious right’s call for theocracy — Christian Leaders Scapegoat Gays on Marriage
(tip: Evan Hurst at Truth Wins Out)
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