Saith Steve Gilliard at Gott mit uns about fundamentalist church leaders: “These folks are SO overplaying their hand. They totally misread how Americans see church…. Shelton, Dobson and the rest of these folks are a minority, about 15 percent of the country. The only reason to listen to them is that they drive voters to the polls. But because most Republicans are too lazy to keep their own field organizations, they are totally dependent on the church driven GOTV. So we get high drama wingnutism on display.
This may work, but my feeling is that this is gonna blow up on them like the Scopes Monkey trial. While they won the case, fundamentalism was discredited before the nation.”
Don’t I wish it was discredited. The sad fact is that it’s not yet, there are still lots of folks for whom faith has taken over their lives.
(Via Steve Gilliard’s News Blog.)