Andrew Sullivan, pointing to a couple of

reprehensible things Rev. Pat Robertson has done lately, calls him “the

social right’s darling.” That’s fatuous, and he knows it. Very many of us

social conservatives in no way approve of Pat Robertson’s political stands

and activities. In fact, today’s Washington Post quotes a prominent

religious conservative saying that Robertson is all alone on the

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issue. I

realize it suits Andrew’s polemical interests to lump social conservatives

(specifically, those of us who oppose gay marriage) in with Robertson’s

indefensible carrying-on, but it’s unfair and inaccurate, and he should

withdraw the guilty-by-association charge.