Message from the Editor: The “Values” of Values Voters

It’s no surprise to hear anti-humanist rhetoric coming out of the Values Voters Summit—an annual conference of Religious Right leaders held in Washington DC. But Bryan Fischer, head of the ultra-conservative American Family Association, went too far with his message on the theory of evolution:

“It is not possible for there ever, in the United States of America, to be a separation between God and government because God is the source of every single right which government has a sacred duty to protect … not a single one of our unalienable rights will be safe in the hands of a president who believes that we evolved from slime and we are the descendants of apes and baboons … look at the nation states in the 20th century which rejected the creator God of the Judeo-Christian tradition – Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Communist China. The one thing all of these secular states share in common is dead bodies.”

We’ll be putting together a list of “Scary Quotes By the Religious Right” next week, just in time for Halloween. Feel free to share with us at hnn@americanhumanist.org or in the comments section.

Maggie Ardiente

Editor, HNN