News Summary

• Christian fundamentalism has insidiously inserted itself into American policy, perverting its own values to legalize discrimination.
• The church preaches compassion and acceptance, but its culture often disguises malice.
• Spiteful gossip or prejudice thinly veiled as concern runs rampant.
• A group of middle-aged women will soothe a distraught parent, praying over her in one breath while clucking amongst each other about her failings as a mother in the next.
• But this is the way it is so often in community.