Travelling around the US in the past few days, I was astonished by the extent to which the country seems to have become a theocracy.
Mark Lawson, of the Guardian (via Norm)
Does Lawson really believe that, or did he think it would get a good chuckle at the editorial conference? Maybe a fact-finding trip to Tehran would be in order.
Calling for a showdown with the mullahs, the ever-astute Richard Brookhiser explains how a theocracy works. Does it sound like America to you?
Suppose we had a Presidential election with lots of candidates, all picked by the religious right. That, too, would be an election with choices... There might be a candidate who thought it was God’s will that gays be stoned at sight, though most candidates would feel that honoring the Constitution and the Bible didn’t require such policies. So there would be choices to make. But would you like to have that set of choices?
As Oxblog points out, the Left doesn't have to be dominated by wild-eyed secularists.
One more question. If Lawson wants to keep faith out of politics, does that mean he also disapproves of Martin Luther King?
