Today's Must-Read

From Digby again, and it's pretty scary:

Yesterday, People for the American Way released a report showing that rather than leaving worldly politics behind in reaction to the rise of the boorish and profane Donald Trump, as many people have been predicting, the religious right is gathering their forces for more assaults on the state houses around the country in pursuit of what they have duplicitously labeled "religious liberty" (when it is, in fact, a form of religious oppression.) Whatever disappointments they may be experiencing in national politics, their zeal to force people who have different (or no) religious beliefs to conform to theirs continues apace.

These people do not appear to have gotten the memo that once marriage equality was affirmed by the Supreme Court the issue was settled. In fact, that ruling sparked a coordinated effort among conservative religious organizations to  roll back gay rights wherever they can. The report says that in 2016 over 100 anti- LGBT equality bills have already been introduced in statehouses around the country. And there is every indication that these activities are picking up speed.

I've been saying since, oh, forever, that the religious right is not going to give up. They're still chipping away at Roe v. Wade two generations later, and although they've failed to make an equivalence between abortion and gay rights, they're not going to change their strategy -- and it's a long-term strategy. They are, after all, the beneficiaries of Eternal Truth™ as revealed by The One True God™ -- or the latest interpreters thereof.

Read the whole thing -- and pay attention to who's running for your state legislature.