"This kind of anti-Christian sneer..." I think the author confuses Christian with conservative. As a Christian, the pope has endorsed same-sex marriage, divorce, and married priests. Wow, that's Christian, actually Catholic. To me Christianity is much more tolerant than even the Pope. And much more open to progress than many of the socially conservative politicians around the world.

Let's not bring religion into the political debate about a party who is retrograde in terms of it's social awareness.