Belted with the bible

It feels like a veil of darkness is descending...

It's time for writers, poets, and philosophers to pick up their pens, and actors and activists to bring it to the streets. Nobody in the western world can avoid these implications.

• The increase of creationist (anti-evolutionary) teaching at elementary schools. The banning of books.
• The persistent crusade to replace scientific and rational values with partisan, selective interpretation of facts and the blatant destruction of any evidence that opposes the desired outcome.
• The destruction of rights to abortion and gay marriage. The persecution of homosexuality.
• The erosion of civil liberties and privacy. DNA sampling and information profiling.
• The promotion of violent and unstable militancy as an acceptable 'moral' response to conflict. The large scale possession of semiautomatic weapons by members of the public.

Economists in Washington and security billionares in San Diego unite... America has never been more divided.