The wacky hosts at FOX “News” love their pretend wars on religious holidays. And why shouldn’t they? Fake wars are ratings boosters and a great way to keep the uniformed viewers of Fox “News” shielded from reality.
It seems like we were just dealing with the War on Christmas yesterday and now we have the Unholy War on Easter. My, how time flies. Jumping on the War on Religion bandwagon, a field director from the Faith and Freedom Foundation is comparing an exhibit by a separation of church and state group to the lunatic hate group Westboro Baptist Church.
This fake unholy war is taking place in Chicago’s Daley Plaza where a display of two 8 foot banners featuring the secular views of Thomas Jefferson and President John Adams are hanging for all to see. One banner reads “In reason, we trust,” the other reads “Keep state and religion separate.” FOX host Anna Kooiman reports the banners are there to counter the 10 foot resurrected Jesus hanging on a 19 foot Christian cross in the same plaza.
Freedom from Religion Foundation Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor and Faith and Freedom Foundation Deputy National Field Director Virginia Galloway joined Kooiman to discuss the fake war.
Koomian pondered if Easter has “evolved into an occasion to demean religious beliefs and Christianity.” She posed the question to Gaylor, “If you don’t believe in life after death, if you don’t believe in all of this stuff, why do you care? Why do this?”
“We believe, if our public square is being taken over by a religion, we should be there too,” Gaylor replied.
Kooiman asked Galloway, “Virginia, as a Christian, what’s your reaction?”
“Well, I think it is kind of sad, on the week that Christians are celebrating the most significant part of their religion, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and Jewish people are celebrating Passover, that we are attacked and denigrated, it doesn’t feel right,” Galloway said,
Attacted? Denigrated? Huh?
Galloway added, “They have a right to express their opinion, a Constitutional right…” before adding, “It seems without class, like the Westboro crowd and the things that they did.”
Kooiman then turned to Gaylor and asks, “What about bad manners here?’
Gaylor replied, “There is no bad manners in celebrating our secular Constitution.”
Galloway later complained “It’s not okay to say Christians can’t say anything in the public square. You can’t lock us in a building and say we can’t speak anywhere else.”
Host Kooiman blessed the guests as she bid a fond farewell, “We love you both. God bless you both.”
So many fake wars, so little time.
Watch the video courtesy of Media Matters.
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Kimberley A. Johnson (BIO) is the author of The Virgin Diaries and an activist for women’s rights. Like her on Facebook, Twitter or follow her on FB HERE. |
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