text: This article strains very hard  to create an equivalence where none ever existed. There was never any left-wing version of the "Moral Majority" just as there was never any left-wing version of "First Things" which sought to forge a coalition between liberal mainstream Protestants, liberal Catholics, and the Democratic party for the sake of gaining political power. So the equivalence MSW is trying to create is quite simply, false. 
  
  I'd like to think there would be enough strong-willed liberal Catholics to embark on such an enterprise, but alas, it has never happened for the simple reason that there has never been the interest from the Vatican for supporting such an enterprise as was the case with "First Things." Under JPII or B16 such an endeavor would have had its plug pulled before it ever got off the ground. If MSW were truly honest he'd admit that. Reading him is like watching CNN - you get the feeling he's always trying to find the exact center between left and right. Poor MSW.