The Washington Monthly's Political Animal blog has gone from good (Kevin Drum) to bad (Steven Benen) to much worse (Ed Kilgore). Case in point is Kilgore's argument that:
... it should be clear that given the vast opposition of U.S. Catholics to the Church’s teachings on contraception and (to a lesser extent) abortion, the Bishops do not exactly come to the table with clean hands when it comes to its demands for “religious liberty.”
Huh? Religious liberty means freedom of religion from government. It has never required democratic religions. As such, hierarchical churches (like us Catholics) have the same rights to non-interference by the government as do whatever congregational churches Kilgore has in mind (if any).
