Wait, WHAT?
Published by BG on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 12:35 PM.Gingrich: Fight 'radical secularism' - A Concord Monitor Article - Your News Source - Concord NH 03301
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich told Liberty University's graduating class yesterday to honor the spirit of school founder Jerry Falwell by confronting "the growing culture of radical secularism" with Christian ideals.
Right, you'd assume they'd trot out "radical secularism" at Liberty. No biggie.
A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it was founded," Gingrich said. "We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights.
"In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms," he said.
Oh no! Not the founding fathers and the ten commandments and Jesus and all that! Yeah, yeah - same speech, different graduating class.
Gingrich said after his speech that Falwell's death would not slow the Christian right's efforts.
"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created," Gingrich said.
Wait, WHAT?
Freedom of whatever you want, so long as you agree with Newt. And, apparently, Falwell. Oy.
(h/t Think Progress)
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