Jay Ambrose on why religious conservatives shouldn't be caricatured as extremists.
Some quotes, including the final paragraph, from the editorial:
It is always a mistake, in my view, for people of faith to think their religious and moral insights necessarily give them policy insights. Those on the religious left - and some secularists - are at least as unlikely in their socialist urgings to recognize this fact as the religious right.News accounts tell us that people who go to religious services regularly, no matter what the faith, are more likely to vote for Bush than John Kerry, and that those who see themselves as not religious are more likely to vote for Kerry. Some of this has to do with stances on specific issues, obviously, but I think it also has to do with people seeking out sensibilities they think are akin to their own. Those among the religious who find Bush a kindred spirit are not thereby fools who will wreck the country.
(Link via Christianity Today's Weblog)