I'm up late packing for the move. More like procrastinating packing for the move, but I can't resist one more blog post, especially when it concerns this great letter to the editor in today's Washington Post concerning Newt Gingrich's recent tirade about 'radical secularists'. Why is this man even given a voice by the media? Doesn't it just make you queasy to see Hillary Clinton palling around with the guy? Anyway, it really is a nicely crafted letter and really short to boot so I'm just going to disregard copyright infringement for the nonce and hope neither Bernard Singer or WaPo minds:

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, speaking at the commencement ceremony at Liberty University, decried a "growing culture of radical secularism". He went on to say "in hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive."

Of course it is. As a history professor, Mr. Gingrich should know that because of the divisiveness of religious beliefs, even the word "God" was intentionally left out of the preamble and the Constitution. The Founding Fathers also saw fit to say, in the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus establishing a firewall between church and state.

Hail the Founding Fathers, the first "radical secularists."

BERNARD SINGER
Springfield

Simply brilliant! Who says liberals aren't good at framing? Oh sure, I don't know that Mr. Singer is a liberal but I like to think secularlism is a particularly liberal idea. At least Gingrich has shown that it's not a particularly conservative one.

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