Sometimes you read something and have to do a double take. One of
those shake-your-head, cartoon-sound-effect "Huh??" moments.
That's what happened when I read the Liberty Council's Mat Staver's
quote in the Florida Baptist Witness. The article was discussing the
Obama transition website and its inclusion of LGBT rights. The gist of
the article was "be afraid, be very afraid" of the evil Obama coming
to take away your religious freedom by promoting the "homosexual
agenda."
Not surprising, right? Pretty standard reading from the far-right. But
then I got to this little gem from Staver:
"Social conservatives and religious organizations, Staver said,
could learn much from studying the case of Bob Jones University, which
lost its tax-exempt status during the 1970s because it prohibited
interracial dating and marriage..."
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/did_mat_staver_really_just_say_that_seri.php
Serously?
Religious conservatives should worry that the IRS might discover that
they were being as horrible as what Bob Jones University was doing
Not that they should worry about doing horrible things, but they
should worry about being caught doing them?
This is Christian morality?