The Fundamentalists didn’t become interested in politics until they were informed that their various businesses, like schools, were going to lose their tax exempt status if they discriminated. They made a lot of money discriminating against various groups, and they didn’t want those profits taxed, so they entered politics to change the laws.
It isn’t a coincidence that the movement is primary a Southern phenomena.
]]>And hey, I have just as much evidence for the existence of the Great Penguin as the other religions have for the existence of Jehovah or Allah or whatever, so there!
– Badtux the Tuxologist Penguin
]]>I happened to read tonight about Galileo’s experience before the Inquisition (it’s amazing what you find in popular science books), and it occurred to me to wonder how long… a decade? two decades? a century?… before something similar happens here. I have no desire, as you know, for a physical confrontation, especially in my current condition. But the Christianist government official who attempts forcibly to make me love Jesus may soon find himself facing the Goddess for a little talk. I shall not tolerate that sort of intolerance from my government or anyone else.
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