An excellent column. An excerpt, though there’s a lot more good stuff there:
On Hannity & Colmes, Gallagher asserted that the plank was a simple statement of a numerical fact. “If a neighborhood had 82 percent of the population that was Italian or a town had 82 percent of the population that was Polish, we’d call those communities Italian or Polish towns. So why do liberals have such a knee-jerk reaction when anybody dares to suggest that with 82 percent of the population being Christian — we are, in fact, a Christian nation?”
Well, for one, if a town council passed a resolution affirming that it was an Italian or Polish town, there’d be a strong reaction, too. Such a resolution would be perceived as a clear statement that members of other ethnic groups are not welcome.
If we’re going by the numbers, why not have a party platform asserting that the United States is “a white nation”? After all, 77 percent of Americans are white.
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