December 11, 2011, here on slacktivist: Rick Perry determined to make evangelicals as ridiculous and unpopular as he is
Ads like this one, and our failure to reject them, further cement the impression that evangelicals are incapable of loving our neighbors– incapable of living as neighbors with anyone who doesn’t share our particular sectarian faith and sectarian political ideology.
It says that we want gays hidden in the closet. It says that our message to GLBT men and women in uniform is never “Thank you for your service,” but rather “Go away.” It says that we are intent on destroying public education, but that in the interim — as a half-measure toward our goal of tax-funded education for our kids but not for yours — we want to force your children to pray the way ours do. It says that we cannot live alongside others who don’t believe exactly as we do, but must instead live above them — elevated, privileged and honored as their superiors due to our adherence to the one, true faith.
It says, in short, that we are awful, awful people.
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