Lexington: The Wilberforce Republican

摘要

These days the closest thing that liberal America has to a civic religion is "tolerance". Emit the merest whiff of prejudice against Welsh-Americans or "the transgendered community" and you risk committing social suicide. Deliver a succession of windy speeches on the wonders of "diversity" and you are likely to end up as the president of an Ivy League university. However, as conservatives always point out, one group of people has been conspicuously exempted from this cult of tolerance: heart-on-the-sleeve Christians. In many of the more politically correct parts of America you can say anything you like about the God squad-dismiss them as poor, uneducated and easily led; ridicule their leaders as money-grubbing Neanderthals; hint that they spend most of their spare time dressed in white sheets—and you will still be welcomed in polite society.