hell’s handmaiden

I wonder if the ECLJ is at all related to the American Center for Law and Justice which put out a frantic warning not long ago that, to paraphrase, “Religion is under assault. Christianity is under attack. The nation is collapsing. The Lib’rals are guttin our values, stomping on our Bible-based Constitution, educating our children, putting condoms on our men and shoes on our women.” Oh… hey, looks like they are related. The PDF of the ECLJ’s document is hosted at the ACLJ’s website.

The document itself looks like the usual creationist ‘teach the controversy‘ claptrap wrapped in the rhetoric of free speech and free expression.

I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about tolerance. I try to argue tolerance for everyone not actively harming someone else. I try to press the point that we’ve got to get along or we’ll all go down in flames together. I try to stress that tolerance means co-existing with people you don’t like. Choose otherwise and you start to fragment the society upon which we all depend. Choose otherwise and cliquish factions start to coagulate and start to war.