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May 21, 2007

Gingrich Wants to "Convert All of America"

This weekend brought us another reason to be afraid of Newt Gingrich. Speaking to Liberty University's graduating class yesterday, Gingrich said, "A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it was founded. We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights." If that had been all he said, I would have yawned and moved on. I mean, this sort of rhetoric is as trite as it comes. But after his speech, Gingrich said a most breathtaking thing: "Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created." (Emphasis mine)

Posted by Becky at May 21, 2007 02:12 PM