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cbayer

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6. This guy appears to be panicking, and well he should be.

Thu May 3, 2012, 10:10 AM

May 2012

The fundamentalists are losing their political power. He can cry that they are being persecuted all he wants.

I thought Jon did a pretty good job with him. I think he really missed out on the opportunity to make some distinction between the kinds of people this guy represents and other kinds of christians.

There is hostility out there and it's well deserved. When you try to deny basic human rights to other people, you deserve derision.

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