The Religious Right-Wing Has Already Seceded from the Country

The following little clip on the right-wing of the Republican party caught my attention and seemed to ring very true. It comes from HuffingtonPost's own Frank Schaeffer. You can read more about Frank and the article which includes the following quote, by clicking on the link...

"But really, over the years, distancing myself from that evangelical background, as I talk about in the book, I've come to a place where...speaking of the secessionists in Alaska, the evangelical right-wing subculture in this country, particularly the Assemblies of God, by the way, that Sarah Palin comes from, have really already ceded from our union, in the sense of the fact that they have, you know, between home schooling and their own schools, their own publishing, their own radio, their own TV, many times very fundamentally anti-American, waiting for the Apocalypse, waiting for Jesus to take everybody away in the Rapture, weirdly Christian Zionist and at the same time assuming that the Jews will all be killed in Armageddon, when Jesus comes back, as part of their Rapture enterprise.

"You know, just to put it frankly, the evangelical movement that I grew up in as a child used to be a fairly respectable and respectful group of people. They regarded themselves as Americans and part of the system. And now, I really think it's been taken over by a group of people that have to be described fairly as just wingnuts...And the fact of the matter is, the movement has gone off the rails. "