Saturday, April 21, 2012  The Wild Hypocrisy of America's
Conservative Christians   Here's a newspaper headline that might
induce a disbelieving double take: "Christians 'More Likely to
Be Leftwing' And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and
Equality." Sounds too hard to believe, right? Well, it's true --
only not here in America, but in the United Kingdom.  That
headline, from London's Daily Mail, summed up the two-tiered
conclusion of a new report from the British think tank Demos,
which found that in England 1) "religious people are more active
citizens (who) volunteer more, donate more to charity and are
more likely to campaign on political issues" and 2) "religious
people are more likely to be politically progressive (people
who) put a greater value on equality than the non-religious, are
more likely to be welcoming of immigrants as neighbours (and)
more likely to put themselves on the left of the political
spectrum."  These findings are important to America for two
reasons.  First, they tell us that, con