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April 17, 2006
Awesome new site.
The problem with liberals, I've long maintained, is that they're all wimps. Well, not all, but too many. I suspect that's why no one who calls himself a liberal has gotten elected outside of San Francisco for the last 25 years, and the Democrats we do get stand up for liberal values the same way Jello stands up to a falling anvil. I also suspect that the namby-pambyness of the left is why we've lost religious communities. There's a way to speak to liberal values without resorting to the black-hole of moral relativism.
I'm therefore pretty excited by Faith in America. It's a pro-gay Christian group that's going about their messaging the right way: they deal with religion-based bigotry with religion-based language. Anti-gay rhetoric, they point out, isn't just anti-eqality, it's immoral and anti-Christian. They're not trying to win a political battle, they're trying to win a religious battle, which is much more difficult and infinitely more important.
Conservatives don't win elections because they've got better candidates or better talking points or more money: they win because they've made America conservative. Really conservative. Scarily, nightmarishly conservative. They've transformed the religion of the masses into a cult of reactionary zealotry, and they've done a great job of it.
Christianity in this country has been hijacked by close-minded chauvinists, and a religious, not a secular, argument is what it will take to get it back.
Posted by Drew at April 17, 2006 11:02 PM
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