"LesbianGate" Backfires on Kerry

The New York Daily News has up an article analyzing the reaction to John Kerry's invocation of Mary Cheney at the last Presidential Debate. Essentially, it backs up my earlier thesis, but then takes it a few steps further.

This reaction doesn't mean that the evangelical community has changed its doctrine, or its mind, on the sinful nature of homosexuality. It does reveal, however, that most born-again Protestants are not nearly as extreme - or as politically one-dimensional - as Kerry evidently imagined them to be...Why this should come as a surprise to the Democratic candidate is a mystery. Kerry knows from his own experience that many practicing Catholics habitually vote for pro-choice candidates, even if they have been specifically warned by their priests that doing so would be a sin.

Interesting analysis. And again, it brings home the point that I made earlier. John Kerry may protest against the use of "labels" when he is called a liberal, but the fact is that he views "conservatives" and "christians" as little more than walking labels. Not a man I would want as my president.