Yes, They Would

I hate this right wing trope, that various complaints about Christianity wouldn’t happen if the Christian were replaced by Muslims.  It is both intellectually lazy and dishonest.

First, really?  Prove it.  The fact is that American Islam doesn’t have a tenth, a hundredth, of the authority, money, and stature of Christianity in all it’s various forms.  And, with regards to this specific issue, it didn’t have a tenth of the effect on the election and California’s Proposition 8.  Maybe, had Islamic organizations had the effect on Prop. 8 that Catholics and the LDS did, and I don’t mean proportionally, they would be getting protested.  But they didn’t, so it is a moot issue.

Second, the trope essentially boils down to “Our bigotry is less then their bigotry, and you aren’t protesting their bigotry.  Why won’t you let us get away with it?”  Conservatives, ostensibly, are all about personal responsibility.  But here, they abdicate it all and try to shift blame and focus onto another group of fundamentalists.  Various centrally controlled, hierarchical, religions engaged in an organized effort to effect the political process.  Deal with the blowback.

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