Fairness - The Commentary

We can’t deny that we were warned in 2006 during the height of the anti-LGBTQ crusades: “Consciously or unconsciously, fundamentalist Christians are using their anti-homosexual campaign to test how much intolerance the American people will tolerate.” Since that time, just as insider Mel White predicted then in his Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right , their success in openly trashing, demeaning, and disenfranchising LGBTQI people has led these right-wing religious reactionaries to inspire the Republican Party to produce and follow a leader who openly embodies and emboldens all forms of bigotry, from racism to sexism to sectarianism to xenophobia, that underlie right-wing Christianity . In about a month, Americans will decide if this leader and his party represent the future of the country. It’s too easy to ask everyone to just play nice during this test of who America is, especially if we’re the privileged who have lost little compared to those who have died i...