Like expert wine tasters, liberals evidently have a highly refined ability to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate insertions of religion into politics. The litmus test is, it seems, that when a liberal does it, breaching the wall of church/state separation is just hunky dory, but when a conservative does it it's a threat to the fabric of our Constitution. It was inspiring, for example, when Martin Luther King did it, but not when Jerry Falwell did it. It's uplifting when Barack Obama does it, but not when George Bush did it, and it's charming when Nancy Pelosi does it, but not when your local congressperson does it:
It's ironic that the woman who voted against banning partial birth abortion can caution us with a straight face that we must be prepared to give an account to God for how we have "measured up" in this life. Whatever one thinks of abortion, surely partial birth abortion is hard to square with the tenets of the teaching of Christ. I should think that anyone who defends infanticide will, indeed, have someday a lot of 'splainin' to do.
RLC
