Tolerance

USAToday has done a nice article on the Reverend Billy Graham. He is perhaps the only major religious leader that hasn't pissed me off at some point with judgmental pontificating. And that's a point that comes up in the story as well: While many evangelical leaders seek to exclude anyone who disagrees with them, Graham has always sought to include everyone, regardless of their politics.

Contrast that with that bonehead Pat Robertson who said that "God has lifted his 'hedge of protection' around the judges, legislators and voters who agree with allowing abortion or gay marriage or physician-assisted suicide." Spoken like a true believer in the "culture of life," Pat. Now please go crawl back under your rock.

Speaking of people that should continue to hide under rocks, did you hear about the Reverend Chan Chandler? He's the North Carolina minister who ordered all the Kerry supporters in his congregation to leave.

What is wrong with people like that? Don't they realize that attitudes like that make them no better than the Taliban? Well, no, I suppose not. After all, they're right, and everyone else can just go to hell.