...over 50 million people voted against Obama. Are they all bigots?

In his blog, Peter Leithart quotes Alan Wolfe and gives a few remarks (pasted below) worth reading. Even though Alan Wolfe is considered among the most often cited “public intellectuals,” his remarks show amazing ignorance of just what it is that the majority of southerners really value….... our stand with the Republicans has more to do with the sacred value of one’s skin rather than its color. SM Hutchens writes: Discrimination based on the color of one’s skin is not now the burning issue of our time, however. It’s that we’ve forgotten the value of human skin in the first place. The human skin of the baby in the womb, the human skin of the severely disabled (candidates for “selective” abortion), the human flesh and blood of the elderly, and the bodies of those near death, from whom we cut organs while they are, yes, still, alive—this human flesh is abused and sacrificed on various altars. Resting on the hard-earned laurels of enlightened colorblindness, many have forgotten, or deny, the sanctity of the very flesh about which we say we are so indifferent as to its color. While it is true that Scripture gives clear admonitions for people with means to help the poor, there is a big difference between the morality of government tax policy, welfare programs, etc and the immorality of promoting abortion, infanticide and euthanasia as the law-of-the-land. Does President-elect Obama really want to change our culture where the most helpless are the victims of the most severe type of discrimination? It seems he wants to perpetuate and encourage this type of discrimination which has become so culturally accepted since Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton and other rulings by judicial activists which have imposed this immorality on the land. (He said his first act upon taking office would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act.) Fie on him for that. Whatever the Republican Party shortcomings, I will continue to work hard for the Republican Party and her candidates as long as she makes a public stand for the sanctity of human life and works to reverse that which has been created by such shameful twisting of our Constitution. Let’s all do our part. ORA ET LABORA …..for cultural change promoting the protection of life and liberty and a return to first principles of our Constitutional Republic here is the post from www.leithart.com Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars with the election of Obama, accuses the South of voting against Obama because Southerners are racists: “The single most disturbing aspect of last night’s election is the transformation of the Republican Party into the party of the Confederacy. Yes, Republicans remain strong in states such as Wyoming and Idaho, and Obama won Virginia and is leading in North Carolina. But both these latter two states flipped to the Democrats because they contain large numbers of white professionals who moved there from other parts of the country and because blacks came out to vote in such force. Long-time Southern whites, by contrast, opposed Obama–those in the Deep South most of all. Despite having lost the Civil War and having been instructed by the laws of the land to treat members of both races equally, large parts of the South resisted–and they continue to resist.” Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, advises Obama to ignore a significant swath of the country: “Perhaps they will be able to control the Republican Party for the next electoral cycle or two, but the white South has finally lost its privileged position in American political life; Jesse Helms’s Senate seat is now held by Kay Hagan. Like all those who lose their privileges, especially those who never earned them in the first place, they are unlikely to show much grace, despite the effort by John McCain, in his concession speech, to point the way. Obama would do well not to try to win them over but to ignore them. They have for too long been a malignant force in American political life, and we should not miss their passing.” Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, ignores the fact that over 50 million people voted against Obama - are they all bigots? Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, does his best to reignite them and to stoke up the flames. posted by Peter J. Leithart on Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 8:00 am FYI: Alan Wolfe is a political scientist and a sociologist and is currently on the faculty of Boston College and serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation Earlier in his career, Wolfe was a member of the collective that put out the Marxist-oriented journal, Kapitalistate, whose pages featured articles by such writers as Poulantzas, Claus Offe, Ralph Miliband, and Bob Jessop. By the early 1980s, Wolfe's politics had become more centrist. A contributing editor of The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, Commonwealth Magazine, and In Character, Wolfe writes often for those publications as well as for Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. He served as an advisor to President Bill Clinton in preparation for his 1995 State of the Union Address and has lectured widely at American and European universities. He was ranked #98 in the list of the 500 most cited intellectuals in the 2001 book by Richard Posner titled Public Intellectuals.