Daily Show Debunks ‘Anti-Christian Discrimination’ Myth

With so much focus on Jon Stewart’s departure next week, it would be easy to forget the one enduring feature of The Daily Show that will almost certainly persist after he is gone: the correspondent field piece. And Jordan Klepper’s trip to Arkansas for last night’s episode was a classic of the genre.

First, there was the familiar misdirect, in which Klepper warned of “discrimination on the rise” in the rural South, before revealing the target of that alleged discrimination to be a local Christian pastor who is unhappy with the newfound spread of gay rights.

“Yes, this backwards town actually voted to protect the LGBT community,” Klepper reported. And even though churches are excluded from the new law that regulates hiring practices, Pastor Randall Christy still believes he’s “under attack.”

Asked to identify just one of the more “gay-oriented” shops that has opened up in the main part of town, Christy paused for an inordinately long amount of time before remarking, “There’s a few.” And don’t get him started on public bathrooms.

Rest assured that long after Stewart is gone, The Daily Show will still be producing gems like this.

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

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