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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Brumar898/15/2007 10:13:57 PM
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by Patrick Hynes @ 9:30 pm. Filed under Politics, 2008, Religion, Barack Obama

In the groundbreaking book In Defense of the Religious Right by, er, well … me, we read about the countless shrill lamentations of radical leftists that church and state were slowly merging in 2004 and since. We learned, for example, from Garry Wills that a “Gang of Four” Catholics run a “fringe government” in conjunction with the pope and Karl Rove (I’m not joking). We learned from Bill Moyers that Republican leaders in Washington seek to rape the environment to hasten the rapture (I’m really not joking). And we even learned that Gary Hart believes Christians speak a code language at a frequency pitch so high non-Christians cannot hear it (I’m really, really not joking … read the book!)

So one might expect that when a high-profile bishop makes a public endorsement of a particular presidential candidate that the usual ululations would commence from the professional secularists among us, no?

And yet I have been unable to find any public condemnation about this unprecedented endorsement-from-the-pulpit from among any of the usual suspects. Not Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Not the ACLU. Not the People for the American Way.

Perhaps that’s because the bishop in question is Gene Robinson who, in fairness to him, is really more of a gay rights activist than a man of the cloth anyway, and the presidential candidate is Sen. Barack Obama. It should be noted that just last month Sen. Obama complained publicly that the so-called Religious Right too often tries to politicize religion.

Mmm-hmm.

The silence surrounding Gene Robinson’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the secular left. It also cheapens the campaign of Sen. Obama, which has heretofore been impressive.

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