Ex-representative Gary Torresson was upset that I have pegged Tony Perkins for what he is — a theocrat who prefers medieval models of religious government over a religion-neutral government such as ours. Back in 2000, Mr. Torressen did his best to attack gay rights by introducing a law in the N.H. House to do just that. By introducing a law that attacks gay rights, he has become just like the Islamists using the government to enforce his religious viewpoint on the LGBT community. By introducing that law in N.H., Gary Torresson, like Mr. Perkins is an advocate of a Christian version of Sharia Law.
People who use the state to enforce Christian beliefs are Christian versions of Ayatollahs. Like Ayatollahs who issue edicts, Christian radicals use the legal system to enforce religious viewpoints. If people took the Bible literally, we would have capital punishment for misdemeanor offenses, women would be silent, slavery would still exist and having the wrong religion would land you in the Christian Sharia Court. Years ago I created a side by side chart comparing the Bible, the Quran and the Muslim Hadiths (Hadiths are the pillars of Sharia law). When it comes to religious intolerance, sexism and anti-gay bigotry, fundamentalist Jews, Christians and Islamists are of the same species. The chart is at www.stopthereligiousright.org/biblequran.htm
Mullah Torresson claims I am intolerant. He could not be more right; I am fiercely intolerant of intolerance and have plenty to say to those who talk of patriotism and the constitution yet will not afford equal rights to all. Consider this: those on the right have an obsessive fear of Sharia law and claim its going to destroy the American way of life. When Christian extremists protested to N.J. Governor Chris Christie after he appointed a judge who happened to be Muslim, he told them it was crazy talk. It certainly is. When Muslims were trying to build a new Mosque in Tennessee, right wing Christians were trying to convince people and local courts that Islam was not a religion but a political system. Their motions in court were their way of attacking the Constitution's guarantee of a Muslim's religious liberty. How is this any different from Islamists who legally attack other religions?
How are Mr. Torresson and Mr. Perkins any different from the Muslim lawmakers who attack the LGBT community through the law? How is the use of the political system by Christians to promote bigotry towards the LGBT community any different from the Muslim version? It isn't any different. Every religion has its fundamentalist crazies. Most Muslims, like most Christians, are decent people but there are many rogues in each faith. There are even radical Christians in the USA that side with the Islamists in that homosexuals should be executed according to Biblical law. When social issues arise in the U.N., the right wing sides with the Pope and Muslim nations. Muslim and Christian extremists both derive their legalism from the laws of Exodus and Leviticus. Like medieval Christian governments, Sharia's foundations are in the Old Testament. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all "Abrahamic religions" that are founded in the laws of the Old Testament. Sharia law is the Muslim version of the Jewish Sanhedrin Court where religion and state were one. Stoning women to death for adultery is not originally a Muslim idea; it comes from the Old Testament. In fact, stoning for adultery is not even in the Quran. Killing homosexuals originates in the Old Testament, not the Quran. Death for wrong religion originates in the Bible, not the Quran. (To see my chart comparing the Bible, the Quran and the Muslim Hadiths by specific themes, www.stopthereligiousright.org/biblequran.htm)
When Christian radicals raise a clamor about "Islamofascism" don't be fooled because the Christian fundamentalists like Gary Torresson and Tony Perkins aim for the same thing as the Muslim extremists do. While radical Muslims prefer real bombs, radical Christians use powerful word bombs that promote discrimination and bigotry. Like Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists will fight continually until their will is done thru the government. That is government intrusion, Mr. Torresson. Conservatives keep claiming they are for less government intrusion but the facts say otherwise. They are no different than the Taliban.
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions" — Thomas Jefferson regarding priest-craft in his letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816
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