UNITED STATES
Telegram & Gazette

By Carlo Baldino
Dec. 8, 2015

We hear this all the time. Muslims who claim to be members of a religion of peace don’t do enough to vocally condemn the terrorists who have hijacked the faith and commit mass murder using their own twisted interpretations of the Koran.

With regard to fairness and consistency, this constant invective is quite baffling.

For example, when Republican conservatives are accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic they vehemently protest being generally profiled. They claim they’re all not like that. They say they have gay friends, Black friends, Latino friends, they’re not racist or sexist, and they like Mexican food (OK, I made that last one up).

But these same people support a political party that includes in its platform the passing of a constitutional amendment to make marriage between a man and a woman…