Did election mark beginning of the end? (Leonard Pitts Jr.) [View All]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/10119167.htm

Maybe this is where America ends. A reader raised that notion in an e-mail to me even before last week's election. Dismayed at the fractures and fissures exposed by an acrimonious presidential campaign and despairing of ever putting this Humpty Dumpty together again, he advanced a radical thesis.

We are, he pointed out, a nation founded not on common ancestry but rather, shared ideals: liberty and justice for all. ...

But social conservatism is another thing entirely, a mutant strain unhindered by critical thought. These are the nominal Christians whose Bibles are so long on judgment yet so short on compassion, the soldiers of the new American theocracy who want to force creation "science" on the schools and deportation on the Muslims. ...

They give God a bad name.