CNN’s God’s Christian Warriors

What do the so called religious conservatives in this country want? Here is the super secret list: Economic Opportunity and Personal Liberty.

Things like: Taxes we can afford; A reverence for the US Constitution as the Founding Fathers wrote it; An appreciation for the values and traditions that made this country the finest in the history of the world; A respect for all opinion, not just what is the PC flavor of the month; An understanding that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character;” And respect for life (no matter how vulnerable or powerless).

Don't forget respect for our RIGHT to protect our lives, those of our loved ones and our liberties. IOW, ending gun control for all but the insane and provably violent.

Speaking as a Jew whose distant relatives were shot or gassed, then buried in pits or cremated, I'm NEVER giving up that right, or the tools necessary to use that right until...drumroll...someone pries it from my cold (well, cooling), dead hands. They'd also be advised to bring along lots of body bags for their buddies, and be careful not to slip on all of the empty cartridge cases near my body. Oh, and I'm not at all concerned about religious Christians doing something like that to me - though I can't say that about lots of "religious" Moslems or atheists/agnostics. THOSE people scare me.

Good for her, but there are a lot of liberal American Jews who are not pro-Israel. Perhaps anti-Semetic was the wrong term, but she is definitely anti-Israel.

That is absolutely the truth. But let's think about this - being anti-Israel (as in "it doesn't have a right to exist as a nation) is, practically speaking, anti-Semitic (no matter your spouse's religion of birth). It is the only certain refuge for a Jew in the modern world, a world that has the example of Hitler to follow, and which a large number of people (including national leaders) would only too happily do if they could. The existence of Israel and the nuclear-armed IDF prevent that. I shudder for Jews if Israel ceases to exist, as Amanpour would like.

I never thought I would utter the phrase "I agree with MSNBC's Dan Abrams" but in this case he's hit the nail on the head:

CNN should have called it what it was: a defense of Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism. ... In the end, this was exactly what she said it wasn’t: lobbying, advocacy, and an effort, intentional or not, to have people draw particular conclusions.

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