so to recap:
Beck doesn't like the COTUS because he exercised HIS first amendment rights? Shut up Christian hater.
I didn't say any of those things.
What I said is Beck is intolerant of Islam, and so are many Americans, not just Christians, but to stage this during the "I Have A Dream" Speech anniversary, a speech about tolerance, and then have the rally actually be about returning the US to God and not about tolerance... doesn't that seem sort of backwards?
The Christian Right wants tolerance when they themselves aren't tolerant of other religions, such as Islam. Glenn Beck has likened aetheists and agnostics to people who undermine the Constitution because, in his words, "if there is no God, then who gave you rights?"
For an agnostic, as I am, those are some scary thoughts. Threatening, even. For someone who isn't Christian, Glenn Beck gets a lot of attention and support for ideas or beliefs which, if left unchecked, could turn the US into a Christian theocracy, if an unofficial one - where religious freedom may be upheld, and a guise of equality, but Christianity is the "official" religion, and more equal than other systems of belief.
Christianity is, without a doubt, the most influential and powerful religion in the world, especially in this country, and for Christians to want to take this country, the one founded on religious tolerance and freedom, back and make it a Christian nation or a nation based on Christian values sounds more than vaguely threatening.
I don't hate Christians. I know some really great Christians, and I know of many Christians I think are heroes and great human beings. But I want to share this country with them, or should I say, I want them to share this country with me, someone who isn't Christian.