The Noble Lie

Genocide takes many forms.

"Take that issue of abortion. These guys don't care one way or another about abortion. As a matter of fact, they had the opposite position. As a matter of fact, conservatives for years supported legal abortion because their view was the poor had too many babies and there were too many kids on welfare so let's have abortions and get rid of those kids. When Ronald Reagan was president of California he signed the most liberal abortion bill in the WORLD and his daughter had an abortion, didn't bother him at all. George Bush supported legal abortion. They've all changed now, they've all come over. And why they came over, because they found political gold in that area. Becasue Richard Vicary came up and said this is how we can split the Democratic Catholic vote. This is how we can win more of the Protestant fundamentalist vote."

- Michael Parenti, Political Uses of Religion