What do the following people have in common: Gary Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, Robert Casey, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Princeton professors John J. DiIulio, Jr. (a contributing editor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD) and Robert P George, Emory University professor Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Southern Baptist leader Richard D. Land, and Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights president William Donohue? They are among the distinguished signatories of a full-page ad advocating U.S. government attention to the cause of religious freedom in China. This ad ran Easter Sunday in the Washington Times under the headline “An open letter to Vice President Gore.”
But the signatories have something else in common, too. For daring to tick off the vice president with their ad, they join the ever-growing list of, yes, “extremists.” And not just extremists. They are, said Gore press secretary Ginny Terzano, as the Washington Times reported, “right-wing extremists interested in attacking the vice president.”
So being for religious freedom is right-wing extremism, according to the Clinton administration.
