At 02:39 PM 11/28/2004 -0500 Damon Agretto wrote: > >>So what begins? More demonization of Christians? >> >>Sometimes I think that for all the talk about religious tolerance, that >>some people believe that Christians really shouldn't be permitted to >>participate in the political process. > >I would note, John, that these are direct quotes done in front of a news >camera.
Look, I probably would not have made those comments. Nevertheless, it is particularly annoying that after moral conservatives are an integral part of the winning coalition in the most recent election that the first thing religious conservative leaders are asked is what they plan to do for the *losing* side in the last election. And yet, somehow when the Democrats win, we don't see Patricia Ireland, Jesse Jackson, or the head of ACT-UP asked on how they plan to reach out to religious conservatives, do we? And then, even after getting asked a dumb question, and then giving a dumb answer, we predictibly see the dread-invoking post of "so it begins" and talk about "payback." Somehow, I don't think we'd be seeing the same posts on Brin-L and articles in the MSM about "payback" to Big Labor and animal rights activists following a Democrat win. Again, the only conclusion I can draw from using loaded language like "so it begins" is that religious conservatives either shouldn't be allowed to participate in the political process, or that if they are, they shouldn't ever be allowed to actually *win* and maybe enact some portions of their Agenda. Apparently the nation's social policy is supposed to be left to the *losers* of election, or better yet, to judges who were never even elected in the first place! JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
