Savage, Hitchens on Religious Right’s hypocrisy
Dan Savage: Most people who seek to impose their morality on others usually have a hard time imposing it on themselves, which is what we see in the Evangelicals in the United States, where the divorce rates and out-of-wedlock birthrates are higher in the Bible Belt than they are in Massachusetts or California.
Christopher Hitchens: Yeah. You hear some preacher thundering about faggotry and the next thing you know is he’s going to be found down on his lousy knees.
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The full conversation can be seen here.
What I would give to sit in a room and bounce ideas off Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens and Dan Savage… But I guess if you believe the Christian philosophy, I’ll get my chance once the four of us are dead and gone and burning in Hell.