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• Thursday, February 15, 2007 09:23 PM

  To Monkey

  Wow, usually when I'm told to move somewhere else, it's from people on the other side of the fence. This, perhaps, is further evidence that the far-left ideologues are as logically bankrupt as the far-right they so enjoy mocking.

  Obviously we are not saying that Marcotte deserves to be threatened, harassed, or physically attacked. We are saying that she deserved to be fired/forced to quit, and she deserves to be criticized for her attacks on faith. Especially if she's supposed to be working for a presidential candidate. It's not just offensive, but just plain stupid, to cling to such intentionally hurtful anti-religious beliefs on a national level. Whether secular, urban liberals, sheltered as they are, realize it or not, there are a hell of a lot of moderate and liberal people of faith (Christians and others) who vote Democrat every fall, and we hardly appreciate it when you paint us with the same brush that you use on hacks like Donohue.

  Marcotte has the freedom to insult the religious however she likes... Donohue has the right to insult her however he likes. And Edwards has the right and obligation to exercise his good judgment in getting both of them out of his hair by letting go of her.

  Secular liberals may be trying to prove a point, or pat their own egos, when they insult, mock, deride, or otherwise act like children when it comes to people of faith. They're just shooting themselves in the foot by alienating a lot of good, ideologically moderate people who cannot be pigeonholed by radical conservative stereotypes.

  —Chloe
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