Most recent example, Rove on both Newsweak and Timid the same week.
New Republic is better than those two, yet it is still agenda driven.
Space is valuable and for the editors to choose to use it for any domestic issue means it is important to them and is felt to be important for the Democrat and left wing agenda for shaping US public opinion and policy in the long run.
Why is criticism of "Intelligent Design" considered important to furthering the Democrats success and the move left of this country?
That's amusing on a number of levels. ID has become more prominent in the past weeks because advocates for it have stepped up their efforts to use political and legal means (rather than actual science) to advance their cause. President Bush's comments a few weeks ago also made the subject more newsworthy. Now that others are responding to this, it is they who are advancing an agenda?
This is not a left vs. right issue. Turning it into such will only be detrimental to the Republican Party.
For what it's worth, the article was originally linked by John Derbyshire from National Review's The Corner. He's not exactly a raving left-winger.
Because they can win this fight.
When conservatives bash socialism, we have the facts. Socialism officially sucks.
When conservatives promote moral issues, the facts are on our side. Gays die sooner. Two parent families are statistically more successful. People who stay married and faithful live longer and are happier.
These are factual things where conservatives win.
The left is dying for something, anything, any argument they can win. And they can win this one, because they've got the facts.
Conservatives are ignorant about science in general, and willfully blind about evolution. The left is all excited about this, because they're going to win it, and win big, making conservatives look like ignoramuses.
Those of us on FR who have been arguing this issue for months and years have been trying to prevent this fight from escalating, because we can see the inevitable outcome. We may have reduced the eventual damage a bit, but there will be damage to the conservative cause over this issue.