Our No. 1 moral value is still 'live and let live'

Steve Chapman thinks the moral victory crusade is overblown. I think he is right. I hope the Republicans do not go too far to the Right or Hillary will be President in 2008.//JW sends.

Liberal Northwestern University Professor Garry Wills is afraid they're right in thinking we want a crusade to clean up our morals. Americans, he writes, have come to resemble our extremist Muslim enemies, with our "fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity."
Oh, please. Americans don't want the government policing individual morality any more than they want the NFL to switch to touch football. America is a "live and let live" country, and it's only growing more so.