The American Spectator : Kicking the "Christianists"

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Kicking the "Christianists"

By R. Andrew Newman on 6.23.06 @ 12:08AM

Andrew Sullivan aims to boot them from the public square.

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What's an oppressed, marginalized gay man, with a column in Time, a blog on the magazine's website, op-eds in the Times of London, going to do? "The worst response, I think, would be to construct something called the religious left," he advises. Perhaps he doesn't get out much, or the Christianist reign of terror has him under house arrest, but I'd like to introduce him to the Methodist, United Church of Christ, Episcopal, and Presbyterian churches. Maybe he's familiar with them.

"I dissent," he exclaims, "from the political pollution of sincere, personal faith."

If you fail to subscribe sincerely and personally to the faith as interpreted by Andrew Sullivan, you're a Christianist and you have no business in the public square.

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R. Andrew Newman is a freelance journalist in western Nebraska.

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Mark| 3.25.09 @ 9:23PM

I agree that some issues are inherently spiritual, and cannot be separated from one's political opinion, like abortion. But your comments on Sullivan's homosexuality are just dumb. If you never lie, steal, kill, exort or rape anyone, then by definition, you are not a liar, thief, murderer, extortionist or rapist. But even if you never have gay sex, you can still be gay. Are you having straight sex right now? No? Are you still straight? 'Nuff said.