How do you expect people who are not Christians to be attracted to a party that announces it’s a Christian party? I’m a Christian, and so were the Founders. But like the Founders, a person’s religious beliefs should not be forced on others. That’s why they deliberately created a country with no official religion. We are for freedom of religious expression...but not for creating a religious-based political party.
Okay, you get freedom of expression, but if you go back and read Goldberg's comment again toward the end of the article, you'll see that he is appealing to Christians to refrain from free expression.
He's just practicing a mitzvah, a good deed -- practicing Jewish piety by asking Christians to stick a sock in it (so that God and conscientious Jews don't have to listen to their impious drivel).
Agree, but actually that's not what is happening. The author claims that is happening, but that's just a bushwah liberal appeal to motive in lieu of argument: "oooh, oooh, oooh, your Christian witnessing is putting me in an 'iron maiden' and torturing me with red-hot irons to confess the magisterium of the Catholic Church and the Holy Office / the prophetic truth of Mohammed and the Koran /.... oh, what was it again? Zionism? Zeusism? Zoroastrianism? Herpes zoster? Oooh, oooh, oooh, you're torturing me!!!"
Free expression isn't even in the same ballpark as "you have to convert to Xtianity or Hesychasmism or Nestorianism, if you want to be a Republican."
Tea Partiers and Christian conservative Republicans 99% of the time don't do that, but they get taxed with it constantly, and for the most part falsely, as a cheap and socially acceptable way of sneering at their faith and their devotion to it.