Douglas MacKinnon, a former speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and Daddy Bush, has written a book.  He wants folks in the South to secede and form a new nation named …. wait for it … Reagan.  (Sorry about that Bush family.)

He told the religious conservative host that southern states – starting with Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – should leave the United States so they can implement a right-wing Christian system of government.

Now some people would call that treason.  McKinnon calls it “the Christian thing to do.”  He says that it can be a peaceful secession because the South had a peaceful secession before President Lincoln initiated “an illegal war.”

Now, in case you’re wondering, he doesn’t say what status black people will have in Reagan.  But, if you’re gay and / or Hispanic, you can kiss your house goodbye.  You’re outta here.

Now let this sink in.

But he made clear that LGBT people would be second-class citizens – or worse – saying that advances in their rights as citizens was a major factor in his call to break up the United States.

“If you do believe in traditional values, if you are a Christian, if you are evangelical, if you do believe in the golden rule, then you’re seeing all of this unravel before our eyes daily,” he complained.

Wait wait wait just a damn minute.  Did he say The Golden Rule?  Which Golden Rule?  The one that say “He who has the gold makes the rules?”  The Golden Rule doesn’t say, “Do until heterosexuals as you would have heterosexuals do unto you.”

He does know that Christians do not own the Golden Rule, right?

And where does Texas fit in?

MacKinnon envisions other states joining, but he hopes to leave out Texas because “there have been a number of incursions into Texas and other places from some of the folks in Mexico.”

Yeah, those Hispanics just screw up the gene pool.

It should come as no shock to you that MacKinnon is an old white guy.