Synthesis
Take
this article by Adam Minter -- a moderately well-written, largely hysteria-restrained take on how bad he thinks the encroachment of religious views on state government is, and one in which he works hard and successfully to only use examples of the religious
right trying to enact their views into law -- and then add in
this deconstruction of how the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, presenting himself as spokesman for
the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, which is the "the statewide public policy organization of the Roman Catholic Bishops from each of the six Dioceses in Minnesota," and speaking before the Crime and Public Safety Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives (which is not, by the way, an arm of
the Minnesota Catholic Conference -- which is "the statewide public policy organization of the Roman Catholic Bishops from each of the six Dioceses in Minnesota," just in case you were wondering) in a bold-faced, unabashed attempt to persuade legislators to enact into law his own neo-lefty, ill-considered, kumbahyah-singing religious views of what public policy should be....
... and what do you have?
Basically, "everybody does it."
I got a radical idea.
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