David sounds the alarm about the inclusion of language in the proposed “stimulus” bill that is designed to limit the access of student religious clubs to campus buildings. Why, he asks, has this “invidious” language been added to the bill?

The modern liberals who dominate Congress seek to further collectivize the nation–to advance a goverment-dependent, government-controlled welfare utopia run by ruling elites and financed by heavily taxed, heavily regulated workers. Why, with this goal in mind, are these liberals threatened by, and as in this instance, antagonistic toward, traditional religion?

The answer is that this liberal (to use Lyle H. Rossiter Jr.’s word) “parental” view of government is deeply at odds with the largely individualist, Western, Judeo-Christian outlook. As Rossiter writes in The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, modern liberals do not want the “enforceable obligations” that citizens have toward each other to be defined by individualist religion and social conventions, “nor by mutual consent among individuals based on moral imperatives.” Instead, they themselves want to prescribe these obligations for a “childlike” populace via “legislation, judicial decisions and the canons of political correctness.”

Given this mindset, liberal Democrats in Congress must surely see traditional religious clubs on campuses as an impediment to their agenda.