Curt, Perfect

Baltar just plain nails it, with one of those perfect statements so obvious people tend not to think about it, a sentence that rings in one's hands like a baseball bat as it makes perfect contact with a 95 mph fastball (one supposes; I've never hit one much over 80).

I'm going to say this clearly: The fact that people, as Christians, can't force the rest of the country to live like they do is not religious persecution, it's freedom of choice.

All of this a propos Tom DeLay's announcement that he will attend Justice Sunday II, round 2 in the church's ground war against all things juridical, and, by extension, all forces that dare to suggest there's something other than the peculiar brand of worship they so assiduously would impose by plurality fiat on every American they on whom they can get their grubby little paws and before whom they can deposit their grubby little collection plates.

DeLay should be ashamed; Baltar does a much better job than I of explaining why.