“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”

“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”

“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”

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    If they followed the teachings of Jesus I might not mind so much.

    — an atheist

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      Yeah, I’m not religious but I know enough to know “don’t be a dick to immigrants/foreigners/travelers” is arguably one of the most consistent messages in the Bible and they’ve definitely pretty well screwed the pooch on that one.

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      That love thy neighbor guy must have really hated the minorities, women, gays, and trans. Thats great for me i wont double check or anything.

      -someone who never read the Bible and probably cant read in first place