I've always maintained that in a fair marketplace, conservative principles will triumph. Only because the media so shade the issues do liberals survive. Tactics like this put the issues in front of Ma and Pa Lunchbox, and force the equivocators to choose sides. We all know liberals have no guts, so they abandon ship at the first sign of a leak. Oh, they never give up, but they have to tread water from time to time. This appears to be one of those times.
Secularists made a huge mistake by sending out the shock troops to bash The Passion. The first foray had ADL Abe claim The Passion was anti-Semitic. That didn't work. NYT's Frank Rich attacked next----said is was fascistic. Then his NYT colleague Maureen Dowd said it was crass. That didn't work. Andy Rooney trashed it on CBS and SNL evilly caricatured it on NBC. That didn't work either.
Newsweek creep Evan Thomas told Imus it was a snuff film. Even so-called conservative Krauthammer bashed it, and Hitchens---in his usual drunken stupor--said it was homo-erotic. Secularists stooped to the lowest levels of condescension to bash Mel, the film, and believers. Nothing worked.
No one will soon forget secularists looking down with haughty condescension on millions of Mr and Mrs Middle-Class Believers lined up at theatres to see The Passion.
And that set the stage for their losing battle in the culture wars. Secularists stupidly polarized the culture into two distinct, opposing camps........elite secularists and masses of believers.
The outcome is not in doubt.