Wall Street tolerance

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Mar 03, 2004

A man who can do an extended smear on Mother Teresa is capable of anything, so you shouldn't be surprised that when Christopher Hitchens writes on the same-sex "marriage" debate, he comes out with lines like this:

I know that our theocratic enemies are, and that our former totalitarian enemies were, ugly and paranoid on the point.

and this:

When I become bored or irritated by the gay marriage battle -- and I do, I sometimes do -- I like to picture the writhing faces and hoarse yells of the mullahs and the fanatics.

What's surprising-- and more than a bit unsettling-- is that those lines appear in an op-ed column published in today's Wall Street Journal. Overt expressions of contempt for social conservatives, and attempts to demonize Christians, are becoming acceptable to the American financiall establishment.