Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Founded by Mark Kleiman (1951-2019)
55% of Reps favor making Christianity the official state religion. Only a third support religious freedom.
Fifty-five percent of Republicans in a YouGov poll would support making Christianity the official religion in the states where they live. Only 33% support religious freedom, only 15% “strongly.” A plurality of Republicans, but short of a majority, would amend the Constitution to make it the official religion of United States.
And you probably thought I was kidding, or exaggerating, when I called the GOP “theocratic.”
Judah the Maccabee, defender of religious freedom? Not so much.
I’m not surprised that the anti-Semite Mel Gibson wants to make a movie about Judah the Maccabee. I’m a little disappointed that Jeffrey Goldberg thinks that Judah “led the first revolt for religious freedom in recorded history.” That, it turns out, is just about precisely the opposite of the historical truth.