Religion and Politics

Rusty over at Radical Georgia Moderate does yeoman's work on this issue last night, and his entire post is worth your time.

Sec. of Education Margaret Spellings (I'll never get over that... Education.. Spellings... I giggle every time) has come out, as part of the Right's new program to rid the world of cartoons, against the educational cartoon Buster Bunny for several reasons, because he travels around with only his divorced father, and once they visited a lesbian couple.

Rusty follows with a plethora of quotes from the founders, many of which I'd never heard of (the quotes, not the founders), about their intentions for religion and government. My favorite one he pointed out:

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

-Thomas Jefferson

Take some time to read it, it is worth your while.

Comments

[Rusty]

Thanks for the link Dylan. That particular Spellings quote I referenced at the top turned out to be satire, but what's scary is it was so plausible.