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Rowe vs Terry

By stcynic on May 31, 2004.

Check out Jon Rowe's exchange with Randall Terry. Jon initially wrote this essay about Thomas Fleming, dubbing him an "honest theocrat" in distinction to Randall Terry, and Terry replied to him in an e-mail. Jon dutifully shreds his arguments, which are, predictably, poorly thought out and riddled with grammatical errors and misspellings (is there anything funnier than the combination of smugness and stupidity?).

Randall Terry is a dyed-in-the-wool theocrat who seeks nothing less than the overthrow of freedom of conscience and the establishment of an officially Christian Nation. If that doesn't seem dangerous to you, I suggest taking a look at Calvin's Geneva or Afghanistan under the Taliban to see where theocracy takes us. Randall Terry's America would be a very different place than Thomas Jefferson's America. He would replace a government that is instituted to protect our inalienable rights with one that enforces his own barbaric moral code and bigotry.

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