
Ben Smith flags this amazing MLK Day quote from Alabama Governor-Elect Robert Bentley, who says he's "colorblind" at least as far as non-heathens are concerned:
"There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit," Bentley said. ''But if you have been adopted in God's family like I have, and like you have if you're a Christian and if you're saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister."
Bentley added, ''Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."
This is a less concise version of Peter Griffin's summation of his own experience living in a Family Guy caricature of a small town in the Deep South. As New Englanders, the Griffin family initially holds a number of stereotypes about Southerners, but by the end of the episode, Peter concludes, "I guess the lesson learned here is that it doesn't matter where everyone is from as long as we're all the same religion."
Of course, Griffin is a cartoon character whose stupidity and bigotry is meant as comic satire. Bentley is sincere and governor of Alabama.