The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Christopher LaschThe left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher LaschToday Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher LaschGeorge Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Christopher Lasch