Words of Gardner Taylor

To quote one of the most distinguished preacher of American,

"It is one thing for secular special interests to organize themselves around punishing the poor and penalizing the handicapped; it is altogether another matter, and infinitely more atrocious, when religion aligns itself with the ugliest moods and deepest biases of the community around it.  There are forces of reaction and meanness and oppression loose in the country today which mask their harsh bigotry with the Word of God and the persuasiveness of a certain synthetic ministerial unction. They castigate people whose ideologies do not agree with theirs. They are passionate about life before birth but are not nearly equally intense about the quality of life after birth. They criticize, and rightly, crimes of violence, but they have not one word of criticism for corporate robbers who bribe, misappropriate, lie, dodge income tax, and practice cutthroat methods of business operation."

Spoken in l983 and now 30 years later the words are even more appropriate and the evil done as only gotten worse.