The majority of media has never tried to hide a liberal bias. And Fox News has never tried to hide a fringe far-right bias.

As a liberal I'm sad that I can't refute any of these claims - I actually agree with you - but (yes there's a but) all politicians are corrupt. Almost all of them are influenced by lobbyists in some way or another, quite a few of them have sex scandals and ultimately money influences everything - they just don't always get caught.

As bad as these scandals are, I'm sure Republican candidates have scandals of equal weight.

At the end of the day I'd still rather have Filner or Boxer then some fringe lunatic like Sharron Angle (R-Nevada) or Christine O'Donnel (R-Delaware). In California, Whitman and Fiorina aren't much better - they would both presumably run the state like a business and although both of their businesses were profitable, a State is not a business and there are much more important considerations than money.

What I'm saying here is that despite scandals, ideology is still a very important consideration.

A lot of the projections are saying they only have 5-10 more years of sustainability before their main fanbase starts dying and even the new generations of "conservatives" will be too liberal to support their lunacy.

I love when the religious ones talk shit, I remind them that Jesus was a liberal which is why he got killed.

Definitely. They want to make it illegal to be hispanic or Muslim. Just listen to Sharon Angel or the majority of the Tea Party lunatics.

I couldn't agree more. It's also ironic the issues they pick because the tea partiers have the most to gain from the policies they are so outspokenly protesting. The Koch Brothers were geniuses when orchestrating this whole thing; the tea party movement has really proven how ignorant the average American is.

Yay go team :)

And yay for Allorias first post!

I agree with you. And I can't believe I'm saying that. Honestly, I think all religion ultimately boils down to evil. But in this case, we really need to move forward as a culture to be more accepting.

An Islamic Community Center is a good thing for Americans because it will show them that the "evil Islamic people" that so many Americans demonize are no different than the Christian majority. They want a chance to pursue "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as well as the rest of us.

Like Christians, Islamic people have a fundamentalist minority as well. Deep down all Abrahamic religions are violent and filled with hatefulness - most people don't take it seriously. To the defense of the tea partiers, Islam has not made much effort to modernize like Christianity has, but at the same time the vast majority of Muslims in America are moderate or liberal.

It is not the religion of Islam that attacked America and blew up our buildings, like you said it was a small minority of radical fundamentalists. It's a shame that so many Americans hold the entire culture responsible rather than a few radicals.

I've talked to my Mom about this issue and she is one of those on the bandwagon with the tea partiers who think that the so-called "mosque" shouldn't be built. She doesn't really have a good reason other than saying we liberals are "naive" but she nonetheless feels strongly against it.

As I said in my article there is no way to prevent the center from being built. They have the civil and constitutional freedoms to do what they want on private property and in the name of religion. The sad part is how many other Islamic centers have been vandalized, looted and even burnt down as the controversy continues. It shouldn't even be an issue much less a national issue. But with the midterm election coming up, I don't see this going away until at least November.

I just hope it doesn't turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy and cause another attack. From several news reports I've heard, the Al Queda and Taliban radicals are using this as propaganda to show that the September 11th attackers were right in what they did, that America is unfriendly (even hateful) toward Islam and that they should attack again. If there was another attack, of course, there would be no hope for tolerance toward Islamic people. The far-right would run with this, trying to pass laws incriminating Islam and causing a reign of chaos which would then upset the radicals further into a vicious cycle.

Why can't we just live and let live and all be friends?

I think we should take a page out of the book of the Republicans who want to change the 14th amendment. But instead we should change the first amendment to exclude \"religion\" and just simplify the world by making it illegal.

That isn\'t what America is about and I\'m not actually serious because if that happened this would no longer BE America, but it\'s interesting to think about.

I would be honored to have my stuff shared with your kids. Encourage them to comment, even if they disagree. And if any of them are like minded and ever want to submit content, I would love to have more than just one writer here (you\'re welcome as well).

If any of the Bible was taken literally that would be pretty fucked up morality. In The God Delusion, Dawkins goes on to explain how almost no morality actually comes out of religion, most of it is derived by natural selection where altruism = mutual survival.

Taking the Bible literally is one of many problems with the religious-right in America.