Friday, April 3, 2015

The Right’s Made-Up God: How Bigots Invented a White Supremacist Jesus | Alternet

The Right’s Made-Up God: How Bigots Invented a White Supremacist Jesus | Alternet

"This kind of legislation is largely driven by conservative Christian men and women, who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class, Jew, doesn’t even meet all the qualifications.

Nothing about the cultural and moral regime of the religious right in this country signals any kind of freedom. In fact, this kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women."