text: We "know" in our hearts when supposed "Evangelicals" promote the prosperity gospel; when hierarchs rationalize the exclusion and diminution of women; when Trump opens his mouth; when "phobes", decry mercy, acceptance and inclusion of those outside the norm".  We know and they know for the simple reason that we are not totally stupid, but more importantly, because we are all sinners.  All of us have that inborn propensity to the "not good", to the lesser good than the higher. Otherwise we would not have free will. That is the "felix culpa" that is otherwise known as original sin. 
  Let us stop pretending that "legality" excuses the immoral, uncivil; that "political" excuses abuse of civility, truth, justice or the common good; that "religion" excuses abuse of truth, justice, reason, or Jesus.  
  White , Falwell and  ilk, like the guy who tried to close his mega Church, are perversions of all of it and absolutist Catholics are no better.
  We don't have to be perfect, just decent.