Richard Land as Grand Inquisitor

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, notorious for his authorization of the use of torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, has deputized the Southern Baptist Convention to help it identify violations of the First Amendment. That gives Richard Land, head of the SBC's political action committee, a status somewhat equivalent to that which Tomas de Torquemada held in the Spanish Inquisition.

Kudos to Brent Walker and Don Byrd of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty for calling attention to the threat that this poses to separation of church and state.