essentially. The newly elected Republican Governor of Alabama , Robert Bentley, speaking on of all days MLK Day, and in of all places, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, has made it plain and clear to all of Alabama's citizens that:
"Now I will have to say that,if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters," he said. "So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."
New Alabama Governor: Only Christians Are My Brothers And Sisters
Yep. Now to be fair, he didn't say he would govern those to whom he's not "related" any differently than those to whom he is. I mean he didn't outright say it. And of course his spokesperson denies he meant any insult:
''He is the governor of all the people, Christians, non-Christians alike," Rebekah Caldwell Mason, Bentley's communications director, told the News.
He further defines how he views his "family":
"There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit," Bentley said. ''But if you have been adopted in God's family like I have, and like you have if you're a Christian and if you're saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister."
I confess ( OK I spent most of my life as a practicing Catholic, so using those words is like breathing) that I'm really unfamiliar with what I understand to be this type of evangelical code speak. Latin, I get.
As a most of my life practicing Catholic ( I never got it right, so I stopped practicing) however, I have been subject to the "when is a Christian not a Christian" litmus test by people in the past and I find it as insulting now, as a fairly agnostic flirting with paganism whatever I am, as I did when I was a Mass attending Catholic.
Contrary to popular belief, we did actually learn the Bible and the words attributed to that Jesus guy and nothing in my recollection validates what this guy has to say.
I have to run to a meeting so I'll close with a comment from someone @ TPM which pretty much sums things up:
And to think: Roy Moore was once rejected as a candidate for being too much of a fundamentalist.
This guy is reprehensible.