Today Newt Gingrich neatly summed up one of the most dishonest arguments from the right: that their “religious freedom” is being taken away when the government won’t allow them to act on their anti-gay bigotry. It’s an argument that tries to cast the offenders as victims and vice versa, and it’s a total perversion of the term “religious freedom.”

Gingrich has been falsely claiming that religious adoption services have been “forced to close” by the evil secularist state. Soledad O’Brien points out in this clip that Gingrich’s claim is simply a lie; these organizations are choosing to close themselves down rather than allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

Completely lost in this sickening inversion of reality: the welfare of the children themselves.