The Second (and Hopefully Last) Justice Sunday

What riles me even more than a secularist hostility to the entry of Christian values, ideas, and language into the public square is the increasingly common lament among Christians that they are oppressed, victimized and completely shut out of the public square.  I did not watch Justice Sunday II, and I do not think I could have done so without throwing many heavy objects at the television.  When the socially conservative evangelical magazine Christianity Today thinks the proceedings amounted to general looniness, you know things have gotten out of hand.  An example:

[The Catholic League's Bill] Donohue made clear that he sees this moment as a time for conservative Christians to seize more power. The Left, he said, invoking Rosa Parks, had told Christians to "sit in the back of the bus" as second-class citizens. Now, he said, "Catholics and other Christians together, we are going to move to the front of the bus and take command of the wheel!"

This he said immediately after saying, "They make it sound like we are theocrats. We are simply saying that religion is an important part of life. … It's a matter that we want to stand up and be counted."

Stand up, be counted, and "take command," apparently.

CT's entire account is well worth reading.

Rob