Homeland Security recruits the Clergy
This scares me in all sorts of ways. Apparently the Department of Homeland Security has been training "Clergy Response Teams" to quell dissent in case martial law is declared. If that's not creepy enough, the second last paragraph really bring things home:
For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, "because the government's established by the Lord, you know. And, that's what we believe in the Christian faith. That's what's stated in the scripture."
Romans 13, for those of you reading along at home, is apparently where the idea of the "divine right" of kings comes from, and what could be more American than that?
The government using the clergy to suppress people's rights. I'd be hard pressed to find a better argument for the separation of Church and State than that.
