Trendy fundie (part 2)

My doubt about Mr. Richard Cizik (formerly a vice-president of the National Evangelical Association, an organization of fundamentalist churches) has been borne out by the facts: Mr. Cizik is both a fake and a double-talker. Earlier this month, Mr. Cizik made happy-talk on National Public Radio expressing his supposedly evolving ideas on gay civil unions and gay marriage. He sounded open to gays in some sense (nobody wants to sound close-minded on NPR, for gosh sake's), but this putative openness caused his fellow fundamentalists (who were already out to get him because of his happy-talk on environmentalism) to drive him from office.

Well, Christianity Today reports that Mr. Cizik tried to save his job in that tried-and-true manner of all mealy-mouthed deceivers, by claiming that he was misunderstood by us dummies who could not understand the wise words of the great man. In truth, Mr. Cizik repudiated everything that he previously said and reiterated the standard fundamentalist anti-gay line. Thus reports Christianity Today:

NAE executive director W. T. Bassett also sent an e-mail reply to concerned constituencies that quoted remarks from Cizik following the Fresh Air interview. "I categorically oppose 'gay marriage' and see now that my thoughts about 'civil unions' were misunderstood and misplaced," Cizik said, according to the message. "I am now and always have been committed to work to pass laws that protect and foster family life, and to work against government attempts to interfere with the integrity of the family, including same-sex 'marriage' and civil unions."

So all that NPR happy-talk goes into the trash and instead gays get smeared as dangers to the integrity of the family. What a broad-minded fellow that Mr. Cizik is, no? I am happy to report that all this duplicity (and just plain lying) availed Mr. Cizik nothing; he is now an ex-employee of NAE. Incredibly, news reports are portraying him sympathetically as some sort of moderate who got axed by hardliners. Only Christianity Today has the real skinny about Mr. Cizik's dishonesty. No wonder his former fundamentalist allies said that he had lost all credibility.

All this goes to show you that you can smell phony fundies a mile off because, to put it simply, they stink.

Read it here