Okay, here's a question about this nonsense going on with birth control

[MicaelS]

16. It allows them to flog the old "War on Religion" meme

That people of faith in the US are "oppressed" by "secular" government, and the "Antichrist" is just around the corner.

This whole "guillotine" thing is the key here, it's a "dog whistle politics for prayer warriors" theme

Supposedly in the Christian Fundamentalist worldview when the Antichrist takes power, he will execute those who do not worship him by guillotine.

Santorum: Obama leading Christians to the guillotine

During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”

“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained.

“As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”

He continued: “They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/13/14015/8393
Dog Whistle for Prayer Warriors - Palin as Victim of Blood Libel]

Some of her supporters believe themselves to be the most persecuted and oppressed minority in American history. Their media warns that Christian patriots are the new Jews, headed for a holocaust at the hands of a "dangerous Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition."