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Editor's Note from The Moderate Voice: "The title and URL for this post has been changed from the original."

Ha ha ha. I've got to go after the so-called Moderate Voice again. (Click on the tag below for past dustups.)

Among my many Google alerts ? used to turn up bloggable things ? is the phrase "freedom from religion." Sorting through my email this morning, I find a hit from The Moderate Voice, with the squib:

In my mind, this says that ?freedom from religion? is a more important freedom than ?freedom of religion?. Therefore I doubt that the Supreme Court will ...

I click over and see "New title: 'Anti-Abortion Group Gets Organized in Florida'":

"The title and URL for this post has been changed from the original."

Oh, what was the old title? Aha! It will be in that gmail. I click back. Ah ha ha ha ha: "The American Taliban Is Coming to Florida."

Moderate Voice. Calling pro-lifers "American Taliban."

It's a crap post too, by one Kathy Kattenburg. It's 1 sentence of original writing followed by a dump of an entire 349-word Orlando Sentinel news article. From the Sentinel:

A nationwide anti-abortion group launched an effort in Florida Friday to outlaw all abortions and certain types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and the morning-after pill.

The religion-infused movement, called ?Personhood Florida,? would define conception in Florida?s constitution at the ?biological beginnings,? supporters said ? when the sperm meets the egg....

Religion-infused... So now, when activists have a religious motivation for the political change they want ? even though they aren't trying to force anyone to follow a religion but are only seeing secular laws that accord with their religious beliefs ? they are "religion-infused," and a blog that self-approvingly deems itself the Moderate Voice will call them "Taliban"?

You realize that by that standard ? if it were applied neutrally ? Martin Luther King, Jr. would have to be called "Taliban." But, of course, I don't think TMV would apply the standard neutrally. Which is an additional reason why "moderate" is a deceptive label.

By the way, who is Kathy Kattenburg? And why is she a Moderate Voice author? I don't know. And I looked on the TMV About the Authors page. She's not there. Doesn't someone have to have a moderate voice or a commitment to couching her opinions in a moderate voice to be given access to posting on The Moderate Voice? Oh, it all comes back to me now. There's some concept over there that a mix of extreme voices on difference sides averages out to moderate. If that's "moderate," then the most viciously fought debates are moderate. Sigh.

Full post as published by Althouse on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).