Nowhere is the Republican Party’s transformation from actual government into fundamentalist Christian sect more complete than in Tennessee. They are now freaking out because the governor has hired a Muslim, which is of course proof that our government is being replaced by Sharia Law.
I set out to write a post about this, but really The Gravel Kraken has summed it up quite nicely:
We live in a country founded on equality and freedom of religion. That is, everyone has an equal amount of freedom to be christian.
There was a good bit of sarcasm in there and I can only imagine how much more of it there would be if I had written it, but I want to point out that the above quote is entirely consistent with the Republican worldview in it’s current incarnation. Their party platform directly calls for the election of more Christians and the basing of public policy on Christianity, while simultaneously railing against Sharia Law. They are not opposed to religion in government, just opposed to anyone else’s religion in government.
Freedom of religion, indeed.
520 Chestnut 
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