The Institute on Religion and Democracy.......

......Apparently doesn't believe in either.

Chuck Curry reports that a Republican front organization, The Institute on Religion and Democracy, has once again attacked the United Church of Christ.

Episcopalians often get tarred as America's most liberal Christian denomination. But there is a more liberal one! (Hint: it's the one Howard Dean joined after he quit the Episcopal Church in a dispute over a bike trail.)

And it's nearly as old, too. Episcopalians can trace their history in America back to Jamestown in 1607, but the United Church of Christ's antecedents date to the Puritans who arrived in New England only a couple decades later.

It's been a roller coaster of a ride across the centuries for the United Church of Christ, from gun-toting Calvinists to super-PC gay "marriage" proponents.

The l.2 million member United Church of Christ (UCC) became the first major Christian denomination in America officially to endorse same-sex nuptials, when its General Synod met July 1-5 in Atlanta.

The General Synod also targeted Israel for sanctions (forgetting, among so much else, the philo-Semitism of its Puritan forbears) and opposed Israel's new security wall. And for good measure, it opposed privatization of Social Security, opposed President Bush 2006 budget proposal, urged the United States to support the International War Crimes Tribunal, and advised Bush to nominate a "moderate" Supreme Court justice.

What can I say? Check out Chuck's post.