The Church of the Left:
Levin’s provocative claim is that, contrary to Madison’s intent, the U.S. has developed a non-traditional state religion — a “Church of the Left,” as the headline puts it — from which traditionalist believers are (barely) tolerated dissenters. They are grudgingly permitted to practice their faith, but only within the confines of their own churches and homes. When they enter the public sphere in any way — by operating a hospital, running a charity, or starting a small business that sometimes caters to weddings — they are made to bow before a state-sanctioned moral and cultural god of the liberal left.