Whirled Nuts Daily Gets Their Mad on Against Megyn Kelly
Later they walk it back, but punch out to read the whole thing.
It seems another Fox News host has stepped off the reservation and said something the wingnuts don’t like. They don’t like it because it’s true, of course, but they’re making lots of absurd and inconsistent arguments against what she said anyway. Here’s what Megyn Kelly said during an interview on anti-gay discrimination with Robert Jeffress of the Southern Baptist Convention:
“This country has a long history of discrimination against certain groups. Eventually we wind up getting it right. Right? Against women, against blacks, the civil rights movement and so on. And in justifying that discrimination when it was in place, some folks turn to the Bible and turn to their religious beliefs and said we have to have slavery because it’s in the Bible. Women have to be second-class citizens because that’s in the Bible. Blacks and whites can’t get married because that’s in the Bible. That wound up in a case. A judge wrote that in an opinion, which the Supreme Court ultimately struck that down, saying that’s not right, judge, because of the equal rights clause. What’s the difference with gay marriage?”
All of that is true, of course. Every single civil rights advance in this nation’s history has been strongly opposed by Christian conservatives and in every case they cited the Bible in support of that opposition. Now here come the absurd arguments: