BY BILL GREENER
Something that frustrates me most as a conservative and a Republican is my inability to ever, and I mean ever, “win” an argument with a liberal. Just when I think they are ready to cry “Uncle,” the rules always seem to change.
Want some examples? Go to a recent “dateline” in the Sunday Washington Post magazine. Two young Capitol Hill staffers are put together. Both happen to be Jewish. They each say their faith is important to them and that they want to focus their dating among only Jews inasmuch as they have already decided whoever they eventually marry will be of their faith. The young man also says he is a liberal so it would be difficult for him to marry a “right winger.” As a person of faith myself, I actually very much respect them making this as important as they seemingly have. However, I ask you what sort of reaction we might anticipate if all that changed was that the youngsters were Evangelical Christians and that the man indicated only a person of a conservative political ideology would be a candidate for marriage? Do we think these two might be portrayed as and/or perceived to be “intolerant and close minded?” How can it be just fine for those of one faith to be “exclusive” and wrong for another faith?