Christians sue for right to be intollerent

From the LA Times:

ATLANTA — Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

With her lawsuit, the 22-year-old student joins a growing campaign to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment. The religious right aims to overturn a broad range of common tolerance programs: diversity training that promotes acceptance of gays and lesbians, speech codes that ban harsh words against homosexuality, anti-discrimination policies that require college clubs to open their membership to all.

The Rev. Rick Scarborough, a leading evangelical, frames the movement as the civil rights struggle of the 21st century. "Christians," he said, "are going to have to take a stand for the right to be Christian."

In that spirit, the Christian Legal Society, an association of judges and lawyers, has formed a national group to challenge tolerance policies in federal court. Several nonprofit law firms — backed by major ministries such as Focus on the Family and Campus Crusade for Christ — already take on such cases for free.

Make no mistake, if these types of lawsuits are successful, they won't stop with the gays. You'll see lawsuits over allowing women in the workplace as well as blacks and Jews. The fanatics on the religious right are never happy. They'll start with the gays because they're the easiest target. They won't be happy til we're back in the Dark Ages. Their ideal america is modeled after the Old South where women and blacks were looked upon as property. It's quite transparent what the wingnuts are doing. They're setting themselves up as the victims. I got news for them. There is no war on Christianity, just like there was no war on Christmas. The only war is the war on secularism. The religious right wants everyone to live under their religious beliefs but that is not what america is about. These people are called the American Taliban for good reason.