I think Schmitt's question is roughly the left-wing equivalent of
claiming that "the terrorists hate us because they hate
freedom"--it's a decision to view our opponents as subhuman, doing
what they do for no good reason. As several people have already
commented, some evangelicals do indeed view being
pro-life/anti-abortion/whatever as standing up for the rights of an
oppressed group (namely, fetuses) whose humanity is not currently
recognized by the law. I don't see it that way at all, myself, but
I don't think we're going to turn any red states blue by pretending
that people who believe this must necessarily be idiots who haven't
thought about the moral questions involved. Sure, some of them are
(some of us probably are, too). But calling them names isn't going
to get us anywhere; we've got to get a conversation going.
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