Does anyone mind that the nurse is a devout Catholic?

Nina Pham is a devout Catholic.

Ebola Survivor Kent Brantly is a Protestant Missionary.

Maybe this guy minds.

Should we worry that so many of the doctors treating Ebola in Africa are missionaries?

My opinion?

The very question is offensive and a betrayal of the best American values.

And I never felt any ambivalence about missionary doctors, either.

Without question, some liberals are pushing the meaning of secularism to exclude religious influence not only from government but from society.

Indeed, to exclude religious presence in society.

Not long ago our president made the somewhat shocking statement that education at church-affiliated schools is a deplorable and divisive force in society, a claim not at all in keeping with free exercise as traditionally understood and not at all in the quondam liberal spirit of pluralism.

In the past, progressives might mostly have favored public education as a means of delivering good quality education to all comers on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.

They might have deplored voucher plans as a way to cheat the children of the poor by eventually shrinking vouchers.

But nowadays perhaps the chief objection is that vouchers can be used at church-affiliated schools.

A close second being that they undermine government commanded and controlled race mixing in schools, still a liberal cause.

Many liberals today seem as hostile to religion as anyone in the continental positivist tradition, and are perhaps secretly much in sympathy with Bazarov.

God, I hate these punk revolutionists and their dirty little will to power.