The Patriot Post® · The Left's 'Irrational Animus Against Christianity'

Damon Linker of The Week believes liberals have lost their way when it comes to tolerance, particularly of Christianity. He points to a couple prime examples, noting that they are but two among many. First, in a Slate article, Brian Palmer laments Christian missionary medical workers – because they’re Christian. Second, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges is threatening Gordon College’s accreditation over its Christian policies on sexual behavior – specifically, homosexual behavior. Linker concludes, “Contemporary liberals increasingly think and talk like a class of self-satisfied commissars enforcing a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. The idea that someone, somewhere might devote her life to an alternative vision of the good – one that clashes in some respects with liberalism’s moral creed – is increasingly intolerable. That is a betrayal of what’s best in the liberal tradition.” He’s right. And that’s saying something, coming as it does from the author of “The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege.” More…