The Christian Menace

The possibility that someone who believes in God and says so will hold high office in the land has sown panic among defenders of the creature's right to deny. What kind of a country is it if zealots in the administration act as if they are answerable to someone other than the media for what they do? All the achievements of recent years suddenly seem under siege.

At a time when the courts have finally recognized that any mention of God in the public schools is unconstitutional, a Christian attorney general swears on the Bible that he will uphold the law. Can you trust someone like that to keep the Decalogue out of the public schools? Who would not tremble at the prospect that impressionable kids will once again be bullied into thinking they must not steal, lie, maim, kill, or engage in sex with whomever whenever?

No reasonable person could think that religious accounts of male and female and the purpose of sex are compatible with school tutorials in masturbation, condom use, and the irrelevance of gender in the pursuit of pleasure. Get ready for statistics about the consequences of sex instruction in the schools to be hysterically publicized.

One doesn't have to be a Founding Father to see that belief in God strikes at the very heart of the American Way. It took some ingenuity to find in the palimpsest of the Constitution recognition of a woman's right to abort her child. (It was still spoken of in that way at the time.)

Translating the legalization of abortion into "a woman's right to choose" was the brilliant rhetorical turning point in the campaign to bring the country into line with the vision of the Founders.

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