LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY sunfell)

I was just reading "Talk to Action" and there will be some religious right discussion at the upcoming "Yearly Kos" in Chicago this August.

At least two of the programming items will be about the Religious Right, and the main theme is "Building a Netroots Nation".

Favoring civil discourse as an outcome, generally means also using it as a method for discussing how we are to contend with the religious right in the context of a democratic pluralist society. Being smart about using temperate language does not make one any less tough minded: it allows one to demonstrate the intellectual rigor that often escapes those who don't know the difference between a flamethrower and a penetrating insight.

How very true- it's something we try to apply here, too. We can be tough-minded and also civil. It's not easy, but if Chip Berlet and Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlewaite can do it, so can we.

Go read the rest of the article. It's very interesting. If anyone here is going to Yearly Kos, try to see if you can meet up with the T2A folks there. I am sure you'll get a lot out of it.