The WSJ Panics

One small sliver of hope from Huckabee's rise: many conservatives in the media may finally begin to see the perils of fundamentalist politics for what they are. A reader drew my attention to yesterday's WSJ editorial:

[Huckabee's] innocence (or ignorance) on foreign policy, penchant for borrowing liberal economic attack lines, and even his rejection of Darwin's theory of evolution deserve to be understood by voters before they make him their standard bearer.

Back on August 13, 1999, they had this to say in the wake of the Kansas School Board's move to abolish the teaching of evolution:

We wish we could work up more than a little sympathy for those scientists -- from the most eminent to the lowliest Bio I teacher -- who feel their life's work is being pushed over the cliff by the creationists now growing in strength in many states. But we don't have much sympathy at all for them.

They, and the secularist fanatics who've supported these establishment-clause decisions, were foolish enough to think that a Supreme Court waving its wand could actually eliminate something as fundamental as religious faith from a place where people put their children six hours a day, five days a week.

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