Putting the Hype back into Hypocrisy

BrooklynDodger is terrorized by the incipient facism of the Christian right. They seek every opportunity to convert the state into an agent of proselytizing and suppression of secular viewpoints. Whatever the theism of the founding fathers, they also held slaves and denied the vote to slaves and women.

The New York Times news of the week gives credence to this new campaign to impose prayers, in fact narrow fundamentalist christian prayers on everyone else.


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Putting God Back Into American History
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: February 27, 2005

WASHINGTON — On a recent evening, David Barton, a leading conservative Christian advocate for emphasizing religion in American history, stood barefoot on a bench in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building with a congressman by his side and about a hundred students from Oral Roberts University at his feet.