Religious Extremism? I Doubt it!

"We do not live in a secular country. There are all sorts of people of faith that place moral values over personal freedoms. They are not all "wacky evangelicals." They are people who don't like Howard Stern piping a hard porn show over the airwaves and wrapping himself in the freedom of the First Amendment. They don't like being told that a young girl does not have to seek her mother's counsel about an abortion. They don't like seeing an eight-month-old fetus having his head punctured and his brains sucked out. They don't like being told the Pledge of Allegiance, a moment of silent prayer and the words "under God" are offensive to an enlightened few so nobody should be allowed to use them."

That's a Kevin Dowd quote from http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005962 wherein the always 'right on" James Taranto has presented a pleasantly straight forward and entertaining opinion. It gets a bit tiresome hearing the idiots of the press and academia try to compare the "right wing Christians" with the radical Islamics of today. Go figger. If the above beliefs are the equivalent of Islamic terrorism, then the Pope ain't Catholic...and a cat ain't got a climbing gear.

I sure have enjoyed the Wall Street Journal Opinion Page these last couple of years. They have such insightful and scholarly writers...and funny. I pain when Taranto takes a day off. He's my favorite.