“The mainstay of the torture regime in this country.” By Joshua Trevino

The point at which Andrew Sullivan condemns a group for “violating one of the core moral absolutes of Christianity” is the point at which we pass into parody. We get to that point early in his recent post complaining about a poll revealing, in the release he cites, “that nearly six in 10 white Southern evangelicals believe torture is justified.” Sullivan intones: “Southern evangelicals are therefore the mainstay of the torture regime in this country.” This is, as so much of Sullivan’s analysis is now, an exercise in hysteria. A brief survey of polls on torture since 2004 reveals that the attitudes of Southern evangelicals are not dramatically different from those of Americans at large.

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