Civil Commotion

I’ve put a temporary widget in the right sidebar which tracks tweets from the annual Southern Baptist meeting. Once upon a time I monitored them closely and compiled the ones I thought best exhibited the malice, lunacy, and general nuttery that is the SBC, but it has become an unmanageable deluge over the past few years. But do scan them from time to time; it’s a good look right into the deranged fundamentalist id.

Robert Jeffress is staking-out new territory.

Jeffress discussed his perceived persecution of Christians during an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.”

“This isn’t imaginary. It’s real. And sure, it doesn’t rise to the level of having your head chopped off by ISIS in the Middle East, but it’s all the same attitude that allows for those attacks,” Jeffress said.

“I want to remind people that, you know, the Nazis weren’t able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately,” Jeffress said. “The German people wouldn’t have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and make them objects of contempt.”

Jeffress is pastor of First Baptist Church–Dallas, and probably spends most of his time hanging-out with other Baptists. That might explain why he is totally unaware that it is inane, overwrought, unaware commentary like this that is causing people to give his club a wide berth.

The uncomplicated bottom line is this: As the world leaves the nonsense of such as Jeffress behind, the stress of their declining fortunes has caused their masks to slip and show the world how stupid and vicious they really are — hastening their declines. And good riddance.

Remember: Y’all are no damn good, and had better join the right club today.

What do you know? The ghost-writer for both Roy Moore and Mike Huckabee has a funny little hobby.

John Perry, a prolific author who co-wrote two books with former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and co-wrote one with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, was accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits, BuzzFeed News has found.

A 2012 police investigation of Perry’s alleged offenses found that “the allegations of sexual battery were sustained” but that the statute of limitations had expired.

The North Carolina Senate has just voted to override Governor McCrory’s veto of a bill that permits state-paid magistrates to refuse to conduct same-sex marriages. It now becomes law.

The North Carolina House voted Thursday morning to override Governor Pat McCrory’s veto of Senate Bill 2, also known as the Religious Freedom bill.

The bill allows government workers to opt out of performing same-sex marriages.