A Bleg, Ctd

A reader points to Michael Gerson's denunciation of the Uganda bill published at Town Hall last month. Gerson wrote:

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn calls the law "absurd." GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley describes it as an "un-Christian and unjust proposal." Pastor Rick Warren concludes it is "unjust, extreme and un-Christian toward homosexuals." All three are right. And the prospect of pastors and counselors as informants for the state is particularly offensive -- the calling of Judas instead of Jesus.

It was, of course, first published in the Washington Post. But it was very encouraging, and most welcome, especially for this statement:

[Americans] refused to be a "Christian nation" precisely because the founders held a broadly Christian view of human beings, who are subject to God and their conscience, not to the state. Pluralism is not a temporary or tragic compromise; it is the proper way to treat men and women created free and autonomous in God's image.

But I notice that the column ascribed the law to Ugandans, not Christianist Americans, including close allies of Rick Warren and of the GOP. And Gerson criticizes no one on his partisan team, merely citing leading American Christianist condemnation of the law. It's as if he realizes the anti-gay right has gone too far this time, i bold enough to say so, but not bold enough to actually take these people in his own ranks on. But it's a start for more sanity and less sectarianism on the right.