Demonization of the religious left?
Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine had a pow-wow with like-minded religious leftists, in which he reportedly said that the "religious right" has correctly identified a "spiritual crisis" in America. But of course the right is building its spiritual community on the backs of the downtrodden:

Republicans and their allies on the religious right have “done a good job” of articulating that crisis, Lerner said, but their analysis is “fundamentally flawed” because it’s based on demonizing “feminists, gays, liberals, African Americans.”

Okay, agree or disagree, I can understand where he'd get the first three demonizations: those who say that women shouldn't be priests or rabbis, gays shouldn't be married, liberals are more concered with themselves than with God, etc. But African Americans? What in any mainstream movement could be construed by any stretch of the imagination as demonizing black people?

Unless by "religious right" he means muslims who murder their black brothers by the hundreds of thousands. But, wait, those people are Africans, but not Americans. Maybe he just got carried away with avoiding the word "black."

By the way, Mike, good for you for trying to inject some religious spirit into politics. But remember, when it comes to issues you mention such as abortion and gay marriage, you're gonna have to get your buddies to come up with a better argument than "religion doesn't belong in politics." - served up by Ralphie @ 10:29 AM