Ethics

Another "Christian Nation" Resolution

By Ed Brayton

You have to give it to Rep. Randy Forbes of Virginia. He may be ignorant, but he's relentlessly ignorant. He's back with yet another resolution declaring our "Judeo-Christian heritage," H.Res. 397. It's identical to the one he submitted last year, basically a laundry list of religious right myths cribbed from Christian Nationalist websites.

One example:

Whereas political scientists have documented that the most frequently cited source in the political period known as The Founding Era was the Bible

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).