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June 17th, 2013 
Peter Nolan E.W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for Lt. governor in Virginia, has offered liberals a plethora of material since his nomination.
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Past gems by Jackson include comparing homosexuality to bestiality, arguing that federal disaster relief is unconstitutional, accusing President Obama of being an atheist Muslim, and most recently, trying to excuse all of this and more on the grounds that he’s a Christian.
Today, Jackson finally got a sympathetic ear from American Family Radio’s Bryan Fischer, who has provided many gems of authoritarian insanity as well, such as promoting the conspiracy theory that President Obama will disarm Christians, comparing homosexuality to shoplifting, and of course, advocating for kidnapping.
But the biggest surprise when these two dependably looney zealots came together was not any comparisons or conspiracy theories they offered. It was E.W. Jackson’s defense of his previous statements.
“It’s a sad commentary on our media and culture today that anybody that expresses a Biblical worldview is marginalized and, frankly, not too put too fine a point on it, persecuted for doing so. And I think that’s a sad commentary,” said Jackson.
“But look, it’s an attack ultimately on every church-going, Bible-believing Christian out there who holds to a traditional worldview and frankly, I think one of my goals is to champion their right to hold their views without being persecuted for it.”
For those of you who missed it, Jackson is arguing that anyone who quotes him is guilty of unconstitutional persecution.
“I think Americans are tired of being told that holding to Judeo-Christian values somehow makes you can idiot, as you put it, makes you backwoods, makes you ignorant and unless you buy into the sort of contemporary morality of the day, you are a person to be shunned.
“Our Founding Fathers believed that there should never be a religious test and yet that’s what we’re seeing today. We’re seeing people apply a religious test and they’re saying anything you believed or said as a minister disqualifies you from serving as Lt. Governor because you hold to these Biblical views.”
The Founding Father also believed in a world where those “Biblical views” could be questioned freely. Jackson is free to say whatever he wants, but everyone else is not forbidden from disagreeing with him.
And Jackson is certainly not “being persecuted” by anyone who ever quotes his words back to him.
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