I can't believe this was printed by contributer Gary Wills:
Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?...The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies.... They (the rest of the world) fear jihad, no matter whose zeal is being expressed.
Well isn't that nice? Gary is calling all religious people jihadists and crazy fundamentalists. This is equating churchgoers with the 19 hijackers that brought down the Twin Towers, part of the Pentagon, and the airplane in Pennsyvania. I feared that this backlash from the far left would come, but not this soon. Many other columnists across the country have said similar things. Bill Maher had some interesting comments on his HBO show, and they showed his truly liberal side. This trash coming from the far left is uncalled for and tasteless. Had the right done something like this after the election of Clinton, they would have been crucified. If the left has any chance to redeem themselves in the 2008 elections, they better stop some of their members before they really get people like myself and others of the religious right really angry. With this type of behavior they will further polarize this country, and they will inadvertantly strengthen support for the GOP among conservative voters who believe that the fall of morality is the most important issue in America. With millions of Catholics, Evangelicals, Orthodox Jews, etc... rallying behind the president, the left should know better than to rattle the saber against those who will determine the fate of their party come next election season.