Bumper sticker politics

JEFFREY CRUMP (Letters, April 7) makes a good point about what he calls "the hypocrisy of the radical left" on display in the offensive bumper sticker "Too many right-wing Christians, not enough lions." Perhaps Crump might consider, however, that it is the efforts of right-wing Christians, attempting to force their religious views on the rest of us , that give rise to a public more tolerant of bumper stickers like this.

The day after Crump's letter appeared, the Globe ran a story about the Pat Robertson-founded Regent University School of Law, whose motto is "Christian leadership to change the world" ("Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school," Page A1, April 8).

One of its graduates felt he had been hired by Bush's Justice Department after agreeing with the interviewer over disapproval of the Supreme Court's striking down of a Texas law that had prohibited certain private sexual acts in one's own home.

It is the right-wing Christian's quest to legislate what we can and cannot do that gives rise to bumper stickers such as the one Mr. Crump objects to.

FRANK O'DETTE
Boston

BETWEEN THE headlines that he did not write ("Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school," Page A1, April 8) and the article that he did, Charlie Savage assembled the usual suspects of buzzwords to alert his liberal readers that something awful was happening. "Scandal," "Christian," "influential," "Pat Robertson," "Bush administration" -- a veritable rogues' gallery of cues to those on the left that they need not read carefully, they could just assume a horrifying conspiracy.

The story about Regent University School of Law was replete with the nauseating, Northeastern, condescending, haughty elitism for which the rest of the country loathes us. Shocking: The Bush administration hires lawyers who agree with the administration. Didn't the Clinton administration hire from the so-called elite (read: liberal) schools? As if nothing scandalous ever came from Yale or Harvard Law.

Father JOSEPH HENNESSEY
Billerica

LIGHTEN UP, Mr. Crump. I'm sure the driver of the car with the bumper sticker doesn't want to exterminate Christians. And to compare the actions of right-wing Christians to the millions of victims of the Holocaust and their families, as you do in your letter, is unconscionable.

H.R. HARRIS
Peabody

WHERE CAN I get one of those "Too many right-wing Christians, not enough lions" bumper stickers?

CLAYTON EMERY
Portsmouth