Anti-Christian, Anti-American, Anti-Peace.

It amazes me sometimes how anti-Christian the vocally pro-Christian Right can be - and how anti-American the presumably pro-American Right can be.

Two stories.
No doubt you have heard about the peace activists/hostages rescued this week. Well, both Little Green Footballs and Blogs for Bush have jumped on them for their "peace activism". Apparently, Turn the Other Cheek and Blessed are the Peacemakers are not in their vocabulary. In the case of BFB, the only solution to the war is kill all the Muslim leaders and convert all the arabs to Christianity. Only this way, he claims, will there ever be peace.
Well, what did Christ know, anyway. Right?

Second story.
The anti-homosexual pastor, the Reverend Fred Phelps , has just been attacked by the Right. Why? Has the right finally started reading the Constitution allowing freedom even for the gay?
Nope. They are down on Phelps because he has been attacking America's soldiers.
Around here, you have the right to freedom of expression only if you express the right things. The Right things.
Phelps gave up that right when he attacked the Pride of the Right.
The bloggers don't seem to get it, any more than the anti-ACLU group. In a free country, EVERYBODY gets a chance to speak, even - especially - if they are saying things you don't want to hear.
Thay's why the ACLU is always getting into trouble for defending the indefensible - because in a free country, even the indefensible gets a fair defense.
The right doesn't understand this. BFB even said "Using this example, I hope that all the lefty readers here will understand the similarity between Phelps' group and organizations like ANSWER and Code Pink." What, they're supposed to cheer because the right is attacking a target of the left? It's the attitude the left attacks, not the people.

But, when you believe that only war brings peace, then your only defense is to attack people.