The South’s true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious

The South’s true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious right

When a federal court recently struck down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban, it wasn’t Governor Robert Bentley who insisted on repeating George Wallace’s ludicrous theatrics of treason, defying the authority of federal law and the Supreme Court. It was Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore, ordering probate judges to ignore the federal court order and refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses. The local media, to its credit, knew exactly what was going on:

Bentley refused to become the next Alabama governor making a show of defying the law in front of TV cameras and in the process sending the message that our state is still intolerant and a lawless place for some of its citizens who happen to be different from the majority.

But what Bentley refused to do, Moore did do. He is trying to stand in the courthouse door as surely as Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. Shame on him.

Continuedhttp://www.salon.com/2015/02/21/the_souths_true_face_of_hate_oozing_nonsense_from_demented_and_influential_corners_of_religious_right/

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Informative read for those who never lived in the south