From HuffPost via HufPost Hill:

The execution-happy Texas governor today briefly took off his “Vengeance is mine” hat and put on his Spanish Inquisition Conquistador metal hat today when he stressed the primacy of Christian values during a speech at Liberty University. “America is going to be guided by some set of values. The question is gonna be, whose values?” he said. “It’s those Christian values that this country was based upon.” He added that these Christian values should inform how the government acts more than the principles of other religions. On a totally unrelated note, Texas will execute Duane Edward Buck tomorrow in the most Christian manner possible. Maybe they’ll inject him with an HPV vaccine before the potassium solution?

The Republican party has been taken over by religious extremists who don’t believe in American democracy. Daily Dish has more:

That’s how I explain the current GOP. It can only think in doctrines, because the alternative is living in a complicated, global, modern world they both do not understand and also despise. Taxes are therefore always bad. Government is never good. Foreign enemies must be pre-emptively attacked. Islam is not a religion. Climate change is an elite conspiracy to impoverish America. Terror suspects are terrorists. When Americans torture, it is not torture. When Christians murder, they are not Christians. And if you change your mind on any of these issues, you are a liberal, an apostate, and will be attacked. If your view of conservatism is one rooted in an instinctual, but agile, defense of tradition, in a belief in practical wisdom that alters constantly with circumstance, in moderation and the defense of the middle class as the stabilizing ballast of democracy, in limited but strong government … then the GOP is no longer your party (or mine).

I left the GOP in 1992 when I voted for Bill Clinton for president. I left them because they were already getting a little crazy. Well, now they’d like to impose their crazy on the rest of America. And at the rate they’re going, since we only have two political parties, and one is now nuts, it’s only a matter of time before they get their chance to do real damage to our democracy (they already are).