Provocation of the day

The importance of portraying 2 percent of the population as far more powerful than the 98 percent and the need to keep that 2 percent from destroying civilization - and allegedly making Christianity illegal - has some interesting historical forebears. --Andrew Sullivan on Christianists & gay marriage

He's right though. In some ways,

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Obviously there are many ways in which the comparison doesn't hold.

But the ways in which it does are greater than a Christianist would have you believe.

Of course no one wants to be compared to Nazis. And if this comparison were made often, it could do more harm than good.

Nevertheless it's a valid point.