I've been highly suspicious of Andrew Sullivan since I first ran across him some time around the turn of the century. He was occasionally a good read---I'd never thought of myself as a "theocon" until reading his broad-brush efforts---but his positions taken post-11 September had gotten me to the point of giving him the C. Montgomery Burns sideways-glance-through-narrowed-eyes that CMB issued to Waylon Smithers once after an uncomfortable question.

Recently, because someone's had the nerve to think that maybe homosexuals shouldn't be able to force the state to grant them some benefits, Sullivan's gone off the deep end, ranting and raving about the evil religious right, sneering and heaping scorn whenever he gets the opportunity. Yes, it got old after about one week, and I quit reading him. Whoopy frickin' doo, to paraphrase Private W. Hudson, USCM.

Anyways, I was kicking around The Evangelical Outpost and got directed to fraters libertas, which put a few torpedoes (Sorry. Unacceptable innuendo, say the guys at Standards & Practices. --Ed.) into ol' Andy.

I've been uncomfortable with him being lumped into the "right" at all, because of his rather self-centered views on human sexuality and his religious viewpoints. These guys, instead of grumbling, decided to read the riot act to Sullivan. A key quip:

So Sullivan is gone from the political right, perhaps revealing that despite his September eloquence of three years ago, he never really evolved in his political philosophy at all.

Enh.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Evangelical Outpost.

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