Accusing Democrats of running against believers implies they are either terribly ignorant or simply not good Christians, Jews or Muslims

New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - John Leo: Rally has me losing faith in pols: April 24, 2005

Today's scheduled Justice Sunday rally and national telecast will turn out to be a political and religious mistake because it is a woeful tactic based on a false premise.

The premise is that Senate Democrats, by threatening to filibuster several of President Bush's judicial choices, have attacked religious believers. Pardon me, but this is clearly untrue. The Democrats would be delighted to approve fervently religious nominees, so long as they endorse Roe vs. Wade and the party's general strategy of using the courts as an end run around the legislative process. The obvious is true: The filibuster threat is about abortion politics and left-right polarization, not religion.
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Accusing the Democrats of running a jihad against believers clearly implies that people who vote Democratic are either terribly ignorant or simply not good Christians, Jews or Muslims. This is a surefire recipe for increasing polarization within the churches.