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Teresa, since you're new to this country, let me try to explain how our Constitution and Bill of Rights work.

People have freedom of speech. That means they can say what they want. The fact they are members of a religious organization does not deny them of that right.

For example, the REVEREND Jesse Jackson has the right to be highly critical of George Bush. The REVEREND Al Sharpton can even run for President. And oh yes, this also applies to people who belong to the Catholic Church. They're allowed to express their opinions too.

Got it?

Tomorrow: the Second Amendment.

I agree.

I think the left is experiencing extreme cognitive dissonance. For those of us over sixty, we can recall when everyone declined to either discuss their faith or to bring it into the workplace or politics. Politicians, especially Catholics and Jews, used to have declare that they would not allow their faith to influence their vote. Times have changed. People of faith are speaking up and holding themselves and others to the values they have just mouthed, up til now. The *outrage* over this that we see expressed repeatedly by the left may simply be that they think the old rules still apply and that believers are still too intimidated to continue to speak up.

As to the black churches: again, the left is still assuming that white Christians and Jews will feel guilt from the pre-civil rights era and will never criticize anything done in the name of black Americans. I am not sure yet if they understand that most Orthodox Jews and practicing traditional Roman and Orthodox Catholics and the majority of black Christians agree on basic traditional values.

They have to have seen the analysis showing Jews, Catholics and black Christians voted GOP in much higher percentages than previously. From their actions, they seem to assume that they can still jawbone these issues and shut us all up. They also are continuing to attempt to set us all against each other on the basis of presumed sectarian differences. That isn't working, either.