When angry writers such as Jean DeJoy (writing about The Da Vinci Code) speak against what they perceive as “constant Christian bashing” they seem to have no clue as to what might be behind it.

Here's a clue: behind the most corrupt, inept and immoral administration in history stands a solid wall of Christian leaders and their guileless-but-pliant flock who have ceaselessly waged war upon the secular institutions and underpinnings of this once-united, once-great nation.

From the wall between church and state (so wisely crafted by our founding fathers as to specifically avoid precisely the quasi-theocracy of today) to our schools and courts, women's health and responsible sexuality, policies and programs have been crafted and emplaced to satisfy a narrow ideological agenda and placate a coterie of power-mad fundamentalists.

That these taxpayer-funded policies are alternately wasteful, fraudulent, harmful, contradicted by science, or fail to embrace or benefit a widely diverse population seems not to concern Christians who mistakenly dream of enslaving all citizens under a rigidly-defined “Christian nation” regardless of creed or orientation.

Need proof?

In the midst of the morass of looming domestic disasters on all fronts, the best that President Bush and Co. had to offer was another debate on an anti-gay marriage amendment in order to cement religious bigotry in the constitution! Shame!

The backlash bemoaned by Christians is merely a response by those of us unwilling to live under the yoke of unprovable tenets of faith.

Karl Logan

Auburn