Lake Wobegon: Where all inhabitants are atheists and a bit on the surly side...

Used to enjoy listening to Garrison Keillor's Tales from Lake Wobegon. As I recall, the closing line was always something like "Where the women are beautiful and the children are above average intelligence."

My mother bought the Lake Wobegon book soon as it came out and we enjoyed the stories immensely. Had no idea at the time that apparently Mr. Keillor equated personal religious beliefs with a serious IQ deficit.

Recently, Mr. Keillor announced at a Chicago chapel that evangelical Christians should be stripped of their right to vote because of the recent presidential election.

Uh-huh.

Can you imagine the furor that would have ensued if ANY conservative would suggest that ANY identifiable group be denied voting rights, even in jest? Who would write the more vicious editorial on the subject......the New York Times or the Washington Post?

As far as double standards go, there certainly is one for conservatives whose every utterance is maligned with barrels of ink on a daily basis. Heaven help a conservative who is also a Christian. It is open season on Christians. Only thing that is missing these days is the lions.