Letters to the Editor

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Days after the death of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Newt Gingrich delivered a commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. Read it here.
  • Yes, those poor, put-upon Christains...

    Recall all those stories of teen Christians committing suicide because of bullying secularists, of picketing atheists preventing them from getting into their churches, of pastors being assassinated and churches being bombed, of Christians being denied the right to marry and/or adopt, laws and constitutional amendments against them being passed, being beaten and tied to fence posts and left to die, being dragged behind trucks until their bodies fall apart.

    "Discrimination," "intolerance" and "judicial destruction" my ass.

    "Implicit within this vision of the Founding Fathers is a pluralistic sensibility. Any true religion would be therefore deserving of the respect of the government, which would include the freedom to express in public the moral principles of such a true religion."

    Oh, I see. Not any religion, but any "true religion." And who decides that, I wonder?

    "In this age we face the irreconcilable wing of [Christianity], an enemy who does not believe that God created all men equal by right. According to their evil ideology, the [Evangelical] believes that justice is only owed to fellow [Evangelicals]--while the rest of humanity (even fellow [Christians]) has no rights.