Bill Berkowitz, one of the few writers to follow critically the Christian right, asks: “Why have the ‘traditional family values’ folks erected a wall of silence around the Gannon scandal?” (Thanks to Kirk Tofte for the link.) NB: to understand the political-theological pickle we’re in, read: Harold Bloom’s The American Religion; Murray N. Rothbard’s history of economic thought, which gives to religion its due importance; and Norman Cohn’s The Pursuit of the Millennium. Folks, hold on tight: we’re riding the gnostic rollercoaster.