Ethics

Pat Boone: They're Coming for the Christians!

By Ed Brayton

This column by Pat Boone ranks up there with the most hysterical (as in filled with hysteria, not as in funny) screeds you'll ever read. In Pat's fevered imagination, the country is on the verge of throwing Christians into the ovens in death camps. It really has to be read to be believed. After invoking the Christians being thrown to the lions in ancient Rome, he wanders off into cloudcuckoo land:

But now that time is seeming less distant! Our new president, his administration, a Congress and much of the judiciary ruled by ultra-liberal, "progressive" and humanistic men and women, egged on and abetted by the ACLU, are actively making plans and devising bills that will force Christians to either obey the new laws, or be fined, jailed - or who knows? Perhaps physically punished, imprisoned, or worse.

You think I'm exaggerating? Think again.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).