Right Wingers Have Moral Values. They’re Just The Wrong Values.

The moral difference between right wingers and progressives was illustrated by comments made by Religious Right activist James Dobson after the revelations that evangelist Ted Haggard had been hiring a male prostitute and buying methamphetamines. “Those again on the liberal end of the spectrum are those who have no value system,” Dobson declared.

Well, that’s just plain silly. As our growing list of reasons to vote for a progressive President based on progressive values shows, liberals have plenty of moral values. The difference between us and right wingers is that we don’t claim that our political opponents have no moral values. We just claim that our political opponents have the wrong moral values, and we work to explain why.

We cannot afford anymore to have a government that follows James Dobson’s policy of denying the moral focus of its political opponents. That’s why we need to elect a progressive President.