In Politics Check you Values at the Door

One addition, only if you happen to be religious. Only the religious can be pummeled in the press for their values. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House attempts to legislate compassion and good deeds though public policy. Those are her values and she stands for election in her district every two years. Barak Obama campaigned for two years by telling us what his values were and how he was going to shape public policy toward those values. Celebrities tell us constantly what their values are and demand that they pay no commercial price if their values don't correspond with that of their employeers and patrons. All of this is legitimate albeit occasionally annoying to me.

Those examples aside from the examples set in California after the defeat of proposition 8 we are to believe that if you happen to work toward your values and you happen to be Mormon in this case (but likewise observant Christians and Jews have the same results in other issues) you should not be allowed to donate money, man telephones etc. in support of your values. Pickets are massed outside of Mormon places of worship, McCarthyite tactics employed against people who happened to contribute to the defeat of Prop 8. All this from the people that tell us that they are compassionate and inclusive.

This is not a new subject and I encourage you to read Jonah Goldberg's take on this subject here.
The demonstrators and nut roots involved have taken it upon themselves to cleanse the Republican party of social conservatives. My personal belief is that social conservatives have taken too much of the front line in the party but should not be expelled as some are calling for. That being said what right do left wing activists have to say anything about it. The Republican party is doing a fine job of destroying themselves thank you very much. OK that last line was a little tongue in cheek but the point is taken.

My main point is one I have made for a long time and that is religious people should not and cannot be allowed to be shut out of the political process just because they are religious. We do not and should not allow religious sermons in defense of a candidate (although Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton seem to be allowed). We do not and should not allow a state religion as the constitution prohibits. We must not however allow religious people to be shut out of the process. They should have the same right as everyone else. The left wing needs to be brought back to reality. We need to have media that can do this.

As for values the left wing activists mostly base their values on the fact that they are not religious. Why should they have a greater share of the power just because they are not religious? As long as theology is not being legislated all cards should be on the table. If Jim Dobson wants to be political and does it with his own time and money he should be allowed. How is that any different that Susan Sarandon and Martin Sheen constantly using their celebrity to preach to the rest of us how we should practice compassion? There is no difference. I expect that left wing people are not more willing to listen to Jim Dobson that I am to listen to Sarandon and Sheen. That is fine with me, just don't try to shut either side out.