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Entry: The New Wars of Religion Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_new_wars_of_religion#31345 Post contents: Mr. Brown, Pat Buchanan focuses on two issues in this column, abortion and "gay marriage." When I was born, abortion was illegal in all fifty states, and no state recognized "homosexual marriage." This legal consensus was reflective of a social consensus grounded in Christian morality. Indeed, any public figure who had suggested legal recognition of "homosexual marriage" would have ended his career with that statement. The fact that there is now public controversy over these issues is hardly the fault of Christians, since it has been secular leftists, not Christians, who worked assiduously to undermine what had been the Christian moral foundation of our country. Arguing that this controversy would disappear if religion were to disappear is as correct as arguing that this controversy would disappear if leftism were to disappear. Since you are not also attacking social leftism as a source of division in American life, it is apparent that you are not concerned about division over these issues per se but over the reluctance of many Americans to accept the leftist view on these issues, and that your real target is the same as Hitchens' real target, Christianity. Sent at: 2008 12 02