Get a Fucking Clue Beach Bum:
More on your Barton:
Barton is a self-styled “historian” who has no training in social sciences or history. In his books and teachings, he argues that separation of church and state is a myth and that America’s laws should be based solely on Biblical scriptures. His numerous claims include that the Bible forbids income and capitol gains Taxes. Barton’s views are so far right that even such groups as the Texas Baptists Committeed and the Baptist Joint Committee have been vocal critics of his interpretations history and the U.S. Constitution.
Worse, in Barton’s role as a faux historian, he acknowledges using quotes–nearly a dozen in all–that he has attributed to the nation’s founders although he frely admits he cannot provide any primary source documents proving that the quotes were ever said or could be attributed to those he claims. Clearly, primary sources are a foundation of legitimate historicl pursuits, and Barton clearly isn’t a fan of any primary source aside from the Bible (and, we presume, his own creative imagination).
Barton’s controversial reputation stretches back more than a decade. In 1991, he spoke at an event hosted by groups tied to white supremacists, but later claimed he had not known that the groups were “part of a Nazi movement.” (Casper Star Tribune, 6/20/97, 6/22/97, letter from David Barton, 7/2/93; Boston, Rob. “David Barton: Master of Myth and Misinformation,” Freedom Writer, Institute for First Amendment Studies, June 1996.)
In addition, Barton’s WallBuilders Web site suggests as a “helpful” resource the National Association of Christian Educators/Citizens for Excellence in Education, an organization that calls public schools places of “social depravity” and “spiritual slaughter.”
Barton has written that U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison, who is Muslim, has “flaunted American traditions and cultural values” by openly taking his oath of office on the Koran instead of the Bible, and he has encouraged others to seek Ellison’s conversion to Christianity.
Barton has argued that the Supreme Court’s decision that sodomy laws are unconstitutional will lead to, among other things, the legalization of public sex, prostitution, polygamy, the promotion of homosexuality in public schools and the end of abstinence-only sex education.
He characterizes the debate over evolution as a “death struggle between civilizations,” with the courts siding with “non-theistic” evolution and threatening what he sees as the biblical foundations for protecting freedom.
As for Marshall, his Ministries website includes commentary by marshall attacking Muslims, characterizing the Obama administration as “wicked” and calling on Christian parents to reject public education for their children.
He has also attacked Roman Catholic and mainstream Protestent churches. Calling for a spiritual revivial in America last year, he called traditional Protestant denominations an “institutionally fossilized, Bible-rejecting shell of Christianity.”
