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Saturday, September 30, 2006

What's to get?

Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost declares himself embarassed about some comments at the Washington Briefing--Falwell's declaring Hillary more divisive than Lucifer, Wellington Boone's "faggot" comments, Ann Coulter saying whatever it was that she said this time. He says he could openly denounce them, but "but they are still my fellow Christians. As much as I condemn their remarks, they are, like me, members of the body of Christ." But as far as a proper response, he says, "I got nothing." He's at an impasse as to what he should do.

Seems to me like he's done it.

They're out of line. Each of the guilty parties probably deserves more analysis than their critics will ever give. But so what? They know that they get more attention than their opposite numbers in civil argument. So if they get caught, we should be all the more suspicious that their comments as revelatory. Shame on them. They have yet to learn how to behave in public. Or even in private.