Contrary to the hate mail I get with some regularity, I have no desire to silence evangelical Christians, Christians in general, or anyone else. I am a First Amendment kind of guy. I think that participation in public life is not only healthy, but that we all have every right and I would even say responsibility to do so.

I also see no reason to disconnect our religious belief's from our politics and I extend that belief to the conservative Christian theocrats I write about with some frequency.  

While I don't believe that our politics should be based on incivility I also know that it cannot be based on milquetoastery. As that old time Southern Baptist, Harry S.Truman famously declared:  "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."  

Now that I have got that off my chest, here is some more heat.

Melissa Rogers has an important piece at TomPaine.com about Justice Sunday, religious freedom and the Supreme Court that effectively answers some of the aggressive Christian nationalist notions of the contemporary dominionist movement.