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I tire of the doomsday plots written in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS, warning us of the looming ultra-conservative theocracy movement just pining to put the country into an intellectual choke-hold.
Believe it or not, there are millions of thinking Christians in this nation who don't espouse theocracy, don't believe in the obliteration of the church-state divide (originally created to protect the Church from the State, mind you), and who don't believe in carrying around sandwich boards plastered with photos of aborted babies.
We believe in Jesus, and we believe that His teachings ought to influence our worldviews -- and, often, our votes. How, pray tell, is this any different in principle from those who espouse the writings of, I don't know, Noam Chomsky, unabashedly allowing his ideas to influence their worldviews and their votes? Both camps vote their values. But somehow, the former is blindly bigoted and the latter is enlightened and egalitarian. Please.
And by the way, some of us are sorry we voted for Bush and Cheney. However, respectable alternatives would have been nice.
