The Professor is looking for lefties to defend Jerry Falwell and his ilk? Well, he won't find them here. To me, the only difference between Falwell, Robertson, etc. and your garden-variety Wahhabist imam is that the terrorists our zealots encourage and defend aren't as good (as measured in body count) as the Islamic version. Do the names Eric Rudolph and Paul Hill mean anything to you? How about Timothy McVeigh? That's the face of the American extreme right, and the "respectable" religious right has been slow to condemn them and halfhearted when it does. "Ban" abortion? The far right kills abortion doctors and blows up clinics with police officers inside. When you remember the World Trade Center, don't forget the Murrah Building.