I don't think I'll be converting to the religious left's line on the proper role of the U.S. government anytime soon. And this sort of rhetoric sure isn't the way to sway anyone to your line of thinking.

REV. JIM WALLIS: If I'm an unborn child and I want the support of the far religious right I better stay unborn as long as possible because once I'm born I'm off the radar screen. No healthcare, no child care, no nothing.

Let's leave aside for a moment the fact that this statement is just demonstrably untrue -- and Wallis knows it. We can debate about how much the government should be doing -- and how much churches should be doing to care for the poor and oppressed, but the idea that religious conservatives just don't care about babies would be laughable if it weren't so insulting.

I'm not feeling a whole lot of love from Wallis, my political enemy, when he spouts off like that. I often think the religious left is wrong, misguided and at times dangerous, but I don't think they're intentionally evil. That puts me one up on Wallis.