Democratic / Left Wing Inclusionists

WhatI don't quite get is the tone that is employed by the personalities and members of the left in terms of inclusion. The message that they advocate is that everyone should be included and equal. The tone that they use leaves little doubt that we should all be equal, but some are more equal than others.

Jon Stewart is an example. Rather than standing up for the religious freedom (whether he views it as misguided or not) of evangelicals, he would rather paint them as something to be feared and ridiculed. That is not to say that I agree with the beliefs of the evangelicals, but it seems hypocritical to slam them for their beliefs.

I have many personal beliefs in terms of religion and morality. I talked to a friend of mine recently and he mentioned that in his opinion what someone does in terms of their actions in a political arena do not need to correspond to the morality they ascribe to in terms of religion. That to me seems wrong. Morality is not something that should be analog, but rather binary. When someone's actions in office stand in contradiction to their professed religious morality paints them as someone that I don't want in office. I can respect someone who has different views than I do and acts on those views. I can also respect someone who does not publicly profess their beliefs, rather holding them as a personal set of values and acts as such.

That is the problem I have with the left. They profess to protect religious (and other as well) freedom in one breath, and in the next they beat down any religion with which they do not agree. This is what fosters intolerance in the mainstream. They call me down ... so I'll call them down. It may be an oversimplification, but if each side had mutual respect, wouldn't the adversarial nature of religious discussion and to some extension political following be diffused?

My two cents ...