This TFP group shows up at all the tea parties and pro-life marches. I am dubious as to whether they can contribute anything other than mischief during elections.
Very rarely have I seen religious people be effective in elections here in the northeast. An exception might be Scott Brown, as half the volunteers in headquarters were social conservatives. But more often, religious people engage in political folly and mistake it for virtue.
In Conn., the pro-lifers followed Peter Schiff for Senate ... right into the nearest ditch. Somebody will have to write the sequel to “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” It will be titled “Right-Wing Marginalism is a Mental Disorder.” Perhaps TFP could be a case study.
OUCH
SIGH.
Obama is as well dubious as to the legitimacy of any and all religions as premise for public discourse or legislation.
There is a reason the Founders codified free speech and freedom of religion in our Constitution -they are tied at the hip. There can not be one without the other in a truly free market of ideas and legitimate plurality founded under God premised upon the unalienable He so endowed...