So, is the author putting down reason and rationality?
The true enemies of Mr. George do not choose reason and rationality as their chosen weapons. The left-wing enemy has condemned reason and rationality as European inventions to enslave the rest of the world.
The left-wing enemy prefers the post-modernist philosophy in which reason doesn't even exist. Sorry, this article has it wrong.
You don't have to be religious to know that abortion is wrong and you can be a "secularist" (gasp) and still figure out the negative ramifications of embryonic stem-cell research.