The UpTake’s “We Need God in Our Governments” video of fundamentalists in Lynchburg, Tennessee has generated a firestorm of interest and heated discussion. Here’s almost all of the raw footage, where I ask them about the separation of Church & State, and the fact that our country was founded upon religious freedom.
As I’ve stated elsewhere: These are good people - some of the nicest folks I’ve ever met in my life.
Their views are often misguided or worse, and they seem almost impervious to information outside their close-knit religious community, which is frightening. However, piling hatred on them, or dismissing them as ignorant hicks, does no good.
These folks believe they’re doing what’s right for them in the context of their moral framework. Of course that’s miles away from the progressive moral framework. Perhaps someone should give the young girl a laptop with an EVDO card so she might have access to other ideas outside the bubble of Lynchburg, TN.
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