Scarboro and the Crazy Christian Right!

From RightwingWatch.com...

Recently we noted the blatant double standard exhibited by religious-right groups in the case of Albemarle County, Virginia schools’ “backpack mail” program: Last year, Liberty Counsel told the school that if it distributed secular materials by giving them to students to take home, it had to allow religious materials as well. The school complied. But when a summer camp for “atheists, freethinkers, [and] humanists” used the “backpack mail” program, Rick Scarborough’s Vision America pounced, directing its supporters to flood the school superintendent’s e-mail account and eventually causing the school to drop “backpack mail” altogether.

Scarborough declared a “major victory” for Vision America, but lamented that the victory was only partial: He would prefer that the school reject material from atheists while continuing to distribute material from Christian programs. Scarborough explained:

"People for the American Way says we’re hypocrites who want to establish a different standard for Christians and atheists.

Hypocrites, no. Different standards? Yes. Again, the court said the district didn’t have unbridled discretion, not that it shouldn’t exercise any discretion.

Why should a fringe minority have the same status as Christians? This country was not established by secular humanists. The Declaration of Independence appeals to the "Creator" and the "Supreme Judge of the World" -- not to Buddha or Mohammad or Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Christians constitute 90% of the American people. The people whose taxes pay for the Albemarle County School System are overwhelmingly Christian."

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My two cents...

So Joey feels that he's justfied in silencing any minority because... well, they're a minority. I believe that's called Mob Rule. And because they are a "fringe minority" (whatever that means) they don't have the same rights as the "fringe majority"? I could go on and on and on but simply, Joe fell off the end of the diving board on this one and did a tragic belly flop.

And just the other day, I will feeling sorry for him. He lost his show on MSNBC (but they still have that idiot Tucker Carlson) and I was feeling like perhaps that wasn't fair. "I mean, he was not as bad as Tucker", I thought. But after reading this drivel, I confess I was totally wrong. Joe Scarboro is WAY out of the loop. Anyone who can hold these beliefs is unfit for public consumption. He is logically brain-dead. None of this makes a bit of sense and is counter to everything on which America was founded. There's a right to free speech but when you are just plain stupid and fundamentally flawed in your logic, you lose that right. To justify overriding the rights of a minority because you are in the majority? That's WRONG, Joey! That's ABUSE of your rights. You abuse them, you lose them!