I have no doubt that you can find plenty of support for your position in the New Testament; my own mother's pretty sure she's going to hell (I think she's got her fingers crossed that there's still a limbo) for divorcing my dad. I also think the idea of gay people defending marriage by campaigning for laws banning divorce is the most beautiful thing I have heard in years. I hope somebody out there picks that up.

However, I think one can overthink this. Most Christians have never read the bible cover to cover. Most who have, don't understand what they've read and rely on interpretation from clergy; otherwise you could just DIY and dispense with church. The text is all over the place to say the least. There, are in fact, two different--and contradictory--versions of the creation story back to back right when you open the thing for God's sake! And that's had no impact on the intelligent design movement whatsoever. So trying to get Republicans to stick to a strict 'constructionist' reading of the bible, isn't going to work. There are a set of beliefs that mainstream conservatives believe the book represents, and those are what Republicans rely on when they point their fingers at others, and wave the blame away from themselves. I think in this regard, its constructive to note the tepid public response that left of centers and Democrats experience whenever they point to unequivocally progressive passages and concepts from the New Testament. Yep, they're in the bible, but they nonetheless lie outside of the narrow set of biblical 'traditional' values conservatives and Republicans refer to in the social and political realm.

I would also note that one of the reasons its so much easier for an adulterous straight politician to surge forth--perhaps even riding the tide of his own sin--is that he can always claim that he has repented. As another reader noted, many a hypocritical Republican has created a powerful saga of good and evil around their battle against whatever it was they used to prefer doing on Sundays--crack, prostitutes, embezzling, cocaine, booze, you name it. A Republican can claim closure with the lord even as he marries the adultress, and again, after he cheats on her--literally a get out of jail free card for life and beyond. For a gay man, such as Craig, to repent, he would have to either become celibate or straight and go through one of those de-gayification programs--and for real, otherwise he'd just get caught again.

Also: Glenn, you are awesome and I'm glad to see you getting out in public and debating some of these pigs with such calm and resolve and lack of bs or knee jerk democrat support.

I frankly can't see how anyone could understand this muddled and stilted work enough to be offended by it, but I guess that's what makes America great.

I'm frankly sick of the sanctity that clothes the military in this discourse. I would have used a much less silly play on words myself, and got down to the business of calling the guy an apologist for murder. The untouchable military trope is taking us down a path known well to fascist dictators everywhere...and democrats are providing the gas.

I didn't go to Yale so maybe I will never reach the apogee of absolute trust in official proclamation achieved by Camille Paglia. Here is Paglia demonstrating blind faith in the Bush admin's cruel to be kind suspension of civil liberties:

The Bush administration assures us that...we are far safer than we would have been with a bleeding-heart Democrat at the helm. I suspect this is true: The lack of scruple about constitutional guarantees that has been openly flaunted by Vice President Dick Cheney might well have nipped nascent conspiracies in the bud...

Indeed, Camille. No need to worry about whether or not its an effective strategy, like the Bush administration, your suspicions are good enough ALL BY THEMSELVES!

Yes, the only critique possible is that MoveOn could have gotten a better copywriter for the money they spent. But the only people getting pissed about this seem to be politicians and right wing a-h***s--you should have seen Hannity last night...you'd think they called Jesus a communist. I just have to say--and I really say this every day in absolute and abject surprise about right wing politicians and their media goon squads--GODDAMN THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME!!!

The most disgusting thing about this is the careless statement by the lead investigator, that she was "lucky" that she wasn't in a morgue. The worst of it is that the tv news I watched jumped in with both feet in order to paint Simpson's intent as sinister. And then they wonder why people hate America.

It's be nice to hear the opinion of real security people--that is those who know what a functioning bomb would look like--to see if there is any merit to the case besides the fact that a guy at the info desk thougth it looked like a bomb.

My admittedly humble knowledge of a bomb-things is that there need to be a lot of explosives if its going to do up-blowing. Also, from what I've heard, people usually try to detonate it before they alert someone to their presence. Oh, well, your tax dollars at work.

The perfect article about war mongerers. Literally, a masterpiece. I'm going to start making Glenn Greenwald t-shirts.

You wrote:

"But hey, it’s a free country and you have a right to pop off on any subject you like. No matter how foolish it makes you look."

'nuff said.