Ken Blackwell on Liberals' Establishment Of Religion

The conservative Republican commentator opines that one of the reasons that liberals are hostile to public expressions of Christianity is because it threatens the monopoly that the religion of liberalism enjoys in the public squares: "Analyze [late Sen. Ted] Kennedy’s Epistle to the Gentiles and you will see that the concern, the work, the cause, the hope, the dream that is the subject of his panegyric is government. Government giveth and Government taketh away. The only Government worthy of that capital G is one that provides health, education, and welfare. All Americans are invited into the Democratic Church. Only the heretical conservatives are excluded."

Mr. Blackwell continues his commentary, zeroing in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent speech at Harvard University: "'We all have our theology in politics,' she said to murmurs of approval from her audience. When Gov. George W. Bush said in a Republican debate in 2000 that Jesus Christ was his favorite political philosopher, liberals were aghast. But when Nancy Pelosi speaks of 'theology,' we must assume she uses the word the way Webster defines it: 'the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially : the study of God and of God's relation to the world.' For Pelosi, God commands universal health care without a restriction on funding abortion. And God apparently also commands the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Pelosi invoked the patron saint of San Francisco. She recited the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. It was probably the first time in history that that gentle saint was dragged in to bless the slaughter of innocents and the abolition of matrimony. Predictably, there were no ACLU protests. And no atheizers ran to MSNBC to deplore her breaching the Wall of Separation between Church and State. Pelosi was perfectly free not only to preach her religious ideas, but to impose jail time and fines on those who dissent. In the Gospel According to Nancy, the liberal Preacher of the House promises to bring the liberal Heaven to Earth. Is it any wonder growing numbers of Americans think it’s a living hell?"