Sessions only likes the parts of the Bible he can use to justify being mean to people he doesn’t like:
Sadly it is no exaggeration, no hyperbole, to say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a holy war on LGBT people, LGBT equality, and LGBT rights on Monday.
He declared war on anything that could be perceived to trespass on the “religious freedom” or “religious liberty” of Christians—which is loosely defined enough to be construed as trespassing on pretty much anything he and his allies choose it to mean.
Sessions said this was because there was a “dangerous movement” to erode the Christian right to worship.
There isn’t, of course; it’s an invented bogeyman for a ravenously-pursued ideological crusade. Women, religious minorities, LGBT people: Prepare to fight for your bodies, your rights to worship, your wedding cakes.
Sessions’ announcement of a “Religious Liberty Task Force” at a “Religious Liberty Summit” follows President Trump’s religious liberty executive order of May. It also follows the Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement in January of a new “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” to be housed within the agency’s Office for Civil Rights.
Some random thoughts from “letters to the editor” of various local newspapers:
“If we wanted a moral leader we would have elected the Pope.”
“We support Trump because we judge not. Trump is a flawed human being, as are we all, and he will be judged by the Lord.”
“Trump is a regular guy who just happens to be a billionaire. I am willing to look past Trump’s mistakes and indiscretions and focus on the great things that he’s already done for the country.”
“Are conservatives praising President Trump as a “god”? I don’t think so. We are simply and soundly refusing all of the socialist Democratic views of the millennials and the rest of the socialist liberals who want everything for free.”
Why are all of the people who are represented by these points of view so utterly stupid.
Republicans are the enemy.