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“We’re completely invisible to this debate,” said Eduardo Penalver, a Cornell University law professor who writes for the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal. He said he was dissatisfied with the Edwards campaign’s response. “As a constituency, the Christian left isn’t taken all that seriously [bold mine-DL],” Penalver said. ~The Politico I await (almost certainly in vain) […]

“We’re completely invisible to this debate,” said Eduardo Penalver, a Cornell University law professor who writes for the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal. He said he was dissatisfied with the Edwards campaign’s response. “As a constituency, the Christian left isn’t taken all that seriously [bold mine-DL],” Penalver said. ~The Politico

I await (almost certainly in vain) the avalanche of corrections that will be coming from progressive bloggers who believed that, “Oh, yeah, well so’s your old man!” (usually by digging up some of Bill Donohue’s more, um, colourful statements from the past) constituted a serious response to the controversy over Edwards’ two awful bloggers.  If run-of-the-mill Irish Catholic Democrats were also deeply offended by the trash Amanda Marcotte wrote, because what she wrote was actually hideously blasphemous and obscene, that would seem to suggest that complaints about her flagrant anti-Catholic and anti-Christian hatred are not simply the product of the “noise machine” and the “wingers.”  Of course, Edwards is under no obligation to fire the two women, and they are perfectly free to rant against Christians with as much obscenity, sacrilege and blasphemy as they please (such is the appalling kind of thing allowed under creative interpretations of free speech protections).  Then again, no one is under any obligation to view them with anything other than contempt.  Gauging from the average progressive’s reaction to this controversy, I would guess that the Christian left isn’t taken seriously as a constituency because most of their progressive allies regard them as amusing eccentrics and consider them to be occasionally useful for providing cover against the charge of the left’s obvious impiety and general godlessness; most of the time, they are completely irrelevant and are treated accordingly.

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