"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

William Safire has a good piece on the Dems' attempt to use Mary Cheney's lesbianism to undermine Bush's support with the religious right.

It reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of religious people. Yes, they don't believe in the politically correct view on homosexuality. No, they won't abandon their own kids or anyone else's because they're ashamed of them. They aren't the Church Lady or Pat Robertson, and they aren't going to sit this one out because of a slimy, disgusting ploy. True Christians know that Jesus died for all of us, without an exception for gays. They also know that he taught that if we want forgiveness, we must be forgiving. The typical anti-religious point of view focuses only on the doctrine of repentence, which they view as intolerant. We view it as basic realism, because we also believe that sin is harmful to the soul. As someone said once, if you're in a hole and you want to get out, you must first stop digging.