Remember how after 9/11, there was talk about the death of irony? Looks like the post-Tucson call for political civility has had an even shorter run, with a — can we call it ironic? — Christian twist: In addition to the Sarah Palin “blood libel” blow-up and the usual Westboro Baptist “Church” nonsense that I refuse to cover, the acrimony ranges from new Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s comments about non-Christians to the Republican effort to repeal the so-called “job-killing” health care reform legislation, along with stalling over appointing President Obama’s choice of the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook to an international religious freedom ambassadorship.

Some links:

• New Alabama Governor Says Non-Christians ‘Not My Brother, Not My Sister’ (Politics Daily
• New Ala. gov: Just Christians are his family (AP)
• What’s in a name? (Faith in Public Life)
• Can the religious left save Obamacare? (The American Spectator)
• Who fights for religious freedom? Obama’s ambassador position still vacant (Christianity Today)
• An almost ambassador encounters a congressional dead end (New York Times)

Ah well. More material for Obama’s State of the Union address next week?

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