{"id":1810,"date":"2010-10-12T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:37:36","slug":"envious-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Envious of The Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a fundamentalist Christian friend yesterday and I asked him if he thought gay marriage should be illegal. He informed me that homosexuality was a sin and that he has no objections to making \u201cwallowing in sin\u201d illegal. So I asked him if all sin should be illegal and he said, yes.<\/p>\n<p>While my friend is certainly not he typical fundamentalist, I do think many if not most fundamentalist\/born again\/evangelical\/etc. Christians would agree with my friend on this one. In fact, while my friend is actually more indifferent to law, I would say most fundamentalists aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentalist and family values groups are actively working to change our laws so that they match with Biblical laws. These people are envious of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Taliban\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taliban\">Taliban<\/a> and of many of the Islamic nations which have been able to enact laws to fit with their interpretation of their holy book. If they can make all forms of \u201csin\u201d illegal, they will.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1806\">Civil Unions<\/a> (dangeroustalk.net)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/9\/21\/903893\/-American-Taliban-shares-same-goals-with-Islamic-jihadists\">American Taliban shares same goals with Islamic jihadists<\/a> (dailykos.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sendaianonymous.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/10\/fundamentalism-literalism-and-selectivity\/\">Fundamentalism, literalism and selectivity<\/a> (sendaianonymous.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=1d8793e2-4b42-487c-bef4-2bc06ddb6e07\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1810\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a fundamentalist Christian friend yesterday and I asked him if he thought gay marriage should be illegal. 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