In today’s “GOPUSA ILLINOIS DAILY CLIPS – OCTOBER 17, 2007” compendium of news and commentary with a decidedly Dave Diersen-esque spin… we learn that Mr. Diersen thinks the Wall Street Journal article entitled “The Rise of the ‘Religious Left‘” describes, in Mr. Diersen’s words, an “UNMITIGATED TRAGEDY“.

It seems odd that any self-proclaimed holder of “conservative” values would think the rise of any religious group would be a “tragedy”, let alone an unmitigated one.

Do those conservative values include ignoring, even ostracizing, other Christians and calling a rise in their influence a “tragedy”?

This sort of foul hypocrisy borders on blasphemy as mere mortals and sinners such as Mr. Diersen attempt to divine who is or is not worthy of God’s Grace and Love; and they do so based on base politics of all things.

Unfortunately, the only “unmitigated disaster” here is that such questioning of political opponents’ faith is simply Par. For. The. Sad. Sad. Course. (no, Really.) from conservative partisans who would rather protect the Republican Party than accept that Christians may hold values other than those reflected in today’s Republican leadership. Values such as compassion, responsibility, equality, forethought, and the like which all too often are clearly missing from what’s left of the modern Repub Party thanks to mishandling by its elected leaders.

Thus, it is unfortunately unsurprising that a precinct captain, partisan activist, and conservative “editor” would choose to denigrate Christians — proving yet again that the party of “moral values” is Orwellian at best, and blasphemous hypocrites at worst.

What would Jesus do, indeed.

UPDATE: Mr. Diersen tries to explain away his anti-Christian statement… yet only succeeds in diving further into the depths of blasphemy.