Jonathan Chait writes in favor of the anti-Christian witch hunt at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (more on the issue can be found here, here, and here) in today's Los Angeles Times.

We wanted to highlight one particularly egregious example of the dishonest argumentation so typical from the left. Chait writes:

When asked about the allegations, a spokesman for Focus on the Family replied, "If 90% of cadets identify themselves as Christian, it is common sense that Christianity will be in evidence on the campus…. I think a witch hunt is underway to root out Christian beliefs."

This comment is telling, because it basically jibes with what religious conservatives have been saying for a long time. Most Americans are Christian, therefore the United States is a Christian country. Therefore, the institutions of the state ought to promote the religious views of the majority, and everybody else ought to shut up and take it.

Chait is being blatantly disengeuous here. Saying the views of the majority "will be in evidence" in no way implies that anything should be "promoted."

Religious conservatives do not espouse that institutions of the state should promote Christianity, and "everybody else ought to shut up and take it." Chait's assertion is quite simply a lie.

Actually, it is left-wing secularists like Chait who want Christians to be banished from the public sphere, to "shut up and take it."