The beauty of adversarial political campaigns is that they provide us with valuable information about important issues and the workings of government. They also give us important insights into the hearts and minds of candidates, the media, the culture, and ourselves. With such tactics, McCain immediately won libertine hearts and secured his role as a media darling.
Religion is now out front as an issue, and that is a good thing.
For entirely too long, the encroachment of our government on religion and the insidious assaults on it by major elements within our culture have gone largely unchallenged. Yet, our laws are full of prohibitions on the free exercise of religion. Our nation has gradually, but steadily, undergone a major decline in its morality as a direct consequence of a major decline in the influence of religious values and philosophy. Throughout history, religious tenets have gotten in the way of human desires and ambitions. God seen as an obstacle to grand human schemes is not an entirely new phenomenon.