Albert the Pious takes up in today’s Briefing the backlash sure to follow upon Mississippi’s just-signed anti-LGBT law. Every word of it is predictable claptrap: The governor exhibited great courage, his opponents are wicked-wicked–wicked–WICKED, it’s a shocking moral revolution, et cetera, et cetera.
Then comes this:
Finally, in a matter of disclosure, this bill in Mississippi, HB 1523, the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act passed by the legislature, signed by the governor on Tuesday, was authored by the Speaker of the House in Mississippi, Philip Gunn. Speaker Gunn, we proudly note, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Birds of a feather, and so forth. And let us not forget this, from yesterday:
Very thankful that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the religious liberty bill into law. @CNN https://t.co/4cwiCNuk5k
— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) April 5, 2016
As much as I deplore the expenditure of national energy and treasure on a matter where the correct course is so easily judged, there is a bright side: Nobody of ordinary intelligence, ordinary decency, ordinary discernment, can fail to detect, and be appalled by, the intractable malice that animates the Evangelical Right. As a political movement, they are committing suicide. And good riddance, too.