Lies, damn lies and then, well, more lies

Guest Post by Morbo

It drives me crazy that some fundamentalist Christians insist that their dogmatic faith bestows upon them a superior form of ethics and morality — and then proceed to act like complete and utter sleazeballs.

Fundamentalists claim to worship an awesome God who holds them to a higher standard of behavior. Time and again I’ve heard them sneer at anyone skeptical of organized religion, any person who dares hew to a secular ethic. Without a belief in God, fundamentalists arrogantly insist, there is nothing to stop men from behaving like beasts.

Recently, I had occasion to hear a speech given by David C. Gibbs III, the Florida fundamentalist Christian attorney who represented Terri Schiavo’s parents, Robert and Mary Schindler. What I heard made me sick.

Gibbs basically accused Michael Schiavo of attacking his wife. Speaking during a right-wing conference in Washington, D.C., Gibbs asserted that no one knows why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago. Initial suspicions that she had a heart attack or suffered from an eating disorder were ruled out, he claimed.

“The third leading theory — and as you can see, the first two seem to be sort of eliminated — is that there was some form of foul play, that some form of strangulation or violence occurred, and again at the hand of the husband possibly, that actions were taken that caused her for about five minutes to not have oxygen reach into her brain.”