In the short run though, Dems have to engage the conversation and call the wing nuts on their feigned piety, because these irresponsibles have made it a high-visibility issue totally for opportunistic reasons -- we have to now separate the wheat from the chaff before we can turn down the volume. The rest of us who are uncomfortable about this whole business of "whose Godliness is better" discussion have to either grin and bear it or chip in usefully -- we really have no other option. The decent Democratic instinct to leave well enough alone has not worked...