Reflections of a stormy petrel

You underrate the power of the kind of people who say "happy holidays". If the likes of Falwell and Dobson represent one extreme of American life, then the ACLU and their likes represent the other - just as militant, just as threatening, and just as liberticidal. In places such as San Francisco, to take a seriously Christian stance on sexual morality can bring you death threats, immediate sacking from your job, and judicial persecution. And there are a good many American conservative Protestants who do perform plenty of good deeds; you just rarely get to hear about them, because... (and the loop starts over again).