Reply #91: Because people like you /create/ the religious right.

[LoZoccolo]

A sickening part of your behavior, is that you're talking about other DUers who are coming here to try and change things in this country. These are people who are not using the government to impose their religion on people and all that, they're fellow Democrats who are aligned with you on many things, and you can't find enough tact and diplomacy to keep yourself from being odious to some of the only people that have enough truck with people in churches and what-not to try and break this imagined hegemony that the Republican party has on people of faith.

It's like we all sit here and wonder why these people act all hypocritical and take a GOP stance on all these issues about compassion and human rights and what not, and then I find a couple cranks turning them away at our door telling them they're not welcome and making fun of them. I think you can hold yourself for long enough to make common cause with people here and get stuff done, so do it. I'm sick of the Republicans using religion to divide people, and I'm sick of Democrats being actors in that exact same game.

And another part of it is that the original post was meant to call out some people, and it just becomes more and more obvious it's not from a standpoint of genuine curiousity, or at least not done tactfully enough to appear as such.