I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.