Wingnut Update

I referred to it yesterday, but here is one of the leaders of the ‘moral majority’ in all his glory:

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.

“Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,” Robertson said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

“I think we have controlled Al Qaeda,” the 700 Club host said, but warned of “erosion at home” and said judges were creating a “tyranny of oligarchy.”

Confronted by Stephanopoulos on his claims that an out-of-control liberal judiciary is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years – worse than Nazi Germany, Japan and the Civil War – Robertson didn’t back down.

“Yes, I really believe that,” he said. “I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together.”

Of course, others in the wingnut brigade see different threats:

Before he became a born-again Christian and later a rising national star in the world of black evangelical ministers, the Rev. Ken Hutcherson started playing football because, he said, it was the best way he could think of to “hurt white people…”

Many African-American ministers and conservative Christians share Dr. Hutcherson’s opposition to same-sex marriage, which he calls “the greatest danger to America.” But Dr. Hutcherson also often criticizes gay rights activists for drawing comparisons between their quest for equal rights and antidiscrimination laws and the struggles of other groups facing prejudice.

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Now that I think about it, these are completely logically consistent statements- if you are a wild-eyed, raving, spittle-flecks-on-the-monitor style lunatic:

Appearing with the Rev. Pat Robertson on “The 700 Club,” Mr. Falwell said that “the ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this.” By “throwing out God successfully with the help of the federal court system,” it seems, the civil liberties group incurred the Deity’s displeasure, leading Him to withhold his protection of America against terrorist attacks.

But others were responsible, too, Mr. Falwell allowed: “The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’ ”

Mr. Falwell later said his remarks had been taken out of context. But asked by a New York Times reporter to elaborate, he reiterated his basic point: “I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion [of God] from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.”

Mr. Falwell added that he did not believe God “had anything to do with the tragedy,” but that God had “lifted the curtain of protection.”

Judges = more fags and more abortions = lack of preotection from God= greenlight for terrorists to attack us while vulnerable.

Lunatics.