Despite the fact that a large majority of Americans favor a woman's right to have an abortion, they are obsessed with criminalizing it. Gay and transgender rights also have strong public support, but that doesn't matter to the hard right evangelical minions and their hopelessly corrupted mega church leaders.
Another gang of biblical extremists have taken over our foreign policy. Old Testament thumpers demand that Israel has a right steal land in Palestine because God said it belonged to them two thousand years ago. And the slaughter of Palestinians fits right in. Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza come right from God's warmongering advice to his chosen people. "Destroy them and all their possessions. Don’t have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys (Samuel 15:3)."
Our nation's founders were already sick to death of religious orthodoxies back when they wrote the Constitution. It was supposed to protect us from zealots bossing everyone around with their interpretation of God's will. We must organize once again to defeat these narrow minded, mean spirited holy fanatics.
Fred Nagel