True Baalers

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says PETA and other animal rights activists are “worshipping animals.” In response to a question about those pesky activists who argue that sick cows should not be prodded with electric rods and made to live in cages, Grassley says: “they’re not interested in how good farmers treat their animals. You’ve […]

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says PETA and other animal rights activists are “worshipping animals.”

In response to a question about those pesky activists who argue that sick cows should not be prodded with electric rods and made to live in cages, Grassley says: “they’re not interested in how good farmers treat their animals. You’ve got to realize that this is a religion with them. They’re worshipping animals. And from that standpoint, their goal isn’t just to have more equitable treatment of animals. They want — they don’t want animals to be used for meat or milk or things of that nature.”

Now, Grassley is an evangelical Christian, so he presumably knows something about worship, what with the praise songs and the kneeling and the imprecations. So, how does he go from advocating for animal rights to worshipping them? Is he thinking of Hindus? Or is he taking a dog-eared page from anti-global warming playbook, which labeles Sierra Clubbers and other earthniks “earth worshippers”?


Is this Grassley’s way of saying, “These animal rights people, they aren’t good Christians like you and me, they’re Baalists”?

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