Hypocrisy and Bigotry: Chad and I on the Klaudt Case

I hesitate to reply to my friend Chad's most recent post, as he seems to feel that I am picking on him.  At least he isn't feeling neglected.  But I think that the blogosphere is all about these debates, so I can't quit now.  Chad has this on the Klaudt case:

This really isn't what I want to be thinking about today, as it just sickens me as it swirls around my head. My wife and I are foster parents and currently have a 6 year old girl in our care, so this story make us especially sick.

I admire Chad and his wife for being foster parents.  This is a very important act of charity.  I also share Chad's revulsion at the Klaudt story.  Having raised two children of my own, I can think of nothing so horrific, at least within the confines of ordinary American life. 

Chad concedes at least part of my point in my first post:

Clearly this isn't a Republican issue we're dealing with. We shouldn't attempt to pin this on Klaudt's party. His party affiliation isn't really an important piece of information in this story. Klaudt's legislative agenda, however, is a piece of this story and certainly worthy to be discussed.

I mark this down as progress.  But then comes this part:

I really sometimes wonder if the religious right's obsession with regulating sexual activity doesn't have something to do with a deep-seeded sexual perversion that occasionally rears its ugly head in public. Maybe deep down they are just trying to regulate themselves.

So it's not all Republicans who are perverts, just all persons on the religious right.  Chad's only piece of evidence for this rather vicious accusation is that the religious right is "obsessed with regulating sexual activity."  Let me point out that it is not just the religious right that has shared this "obsession."  When I was attending Claremont Graduate School, the college bookstore stopped carrying Playboy and Penthouse.  They did so at the urging of feminists, who thought that these magazines were demeaning to women.  At one point many feminists wanted to criminalize any sexual advances made by an employer toward an employee, so obsessed were they with regulating sexual activity.  For some reason that obsession relaxed its grip while Bill Clinton was President.  So I suppose Chad must be wondering if all feminists have a "a deep-seeded sexual perversion that occasionally rears its ugly head in public." 

I do not know what is in Chad's heart, but he writes like a religious bigot. All those anti-abortion Baptists and Catholics, they're just a bunch of perverts.  Contrary to what Chad says, this ole' Perfesser is not upset with him over this.  Left wing religiously bigoted bloggers have done a lot of damage to their own causes. If you don't believe me, ask John Edwards. I am only too happy to see Chad put all this on record.