The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time

Separation of Church and State, the basis of a healthy democracy because it avoids tilting the playing field towards the oppression of some over very divisive questions of belief, is being obviously subverted by opportunistic and coldly calculating politicians a la Bill Frist. As Bernard Henry Lévy reminded us in this month's Atlantic Monthly, the American people are entering the field of religious strife that the Europeans had put behind them a couple of centuries ago. Today's Frank Rich column is juicy and to the point. The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time