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March 28, 2006
Get out of Dodge
Via Medmusings, I encountered the story of San Francisco's response to a Christian youth rally. If this is how the activist base and officialdom there responds to a rally that has the temerity to, in tone or content, even obliquely challenge some of the local sacred cows, I really don't know the basis for SF describing itself as "America's most tolerant and progressive city". Here in Chapel Hill we have tolerated the presence of Duke fans for four years now, both in the public conscience and town ordinances. I guess what "America's most tolerant and progressive city" really means is "America's most leftist city, and if you don't agree with our outlook on the world, with its cheesy moral relativism that can wrap itself around anything but Christianity (we even have a division that handles compassion for medieval Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, no inconsistency with progressivism on their part, but not modern American evangelicals), then you are clearly hateful and neolithic." It's time for us to see the self-proclaimed progressives for what they are: just another angle on America's political landscape, often a tired one (at least in an intellectual sense, how can you describe yourself as progressives when you have not had a net new collective idea since 1965?) at that, and nothing more.
Oh and by the way, this is not a personal axe: I am not a practicing Christian. I am your classic "wayward Catholic". But I am just as opposed to secular attempts to chill the speech of the religious community as I am to attempts by the faithful to do the same to the secular.
On a lighter note, I found it funny that the author took objection to "Battle Cry": I was raised in a "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" kind of Catholic setting, and remember that even huddles at sporting events were broken with the declaration "with God on our side, who dares oppose us?".
Posted by dag at March 28, 2006 8:16 AM
Comments
This is about what I would expect from a Red State cracker.
Posted by: Anon at March 29, 2006 1:38 PM