Bush & Rummy refuse to take a stand against religious bigotry

The Washington Post has a great editorial today about the General Boykin affair - you remember him, the guy who thinks "our God" is better than "their God," and says it while in uniform. Anyway, the Post rightly notes that Bush and Rummy totally passed the buck on this one, and that DOD's inspector general's office did the same.

The point isn't that Boykin didn't get his comments cleared. The point is, as the Post notes, that Boykin's comments were religious bigotry at odds with the president's own statement of policy vis-a-vis the Muslim world. They're wrong, they're bigoted, and the president should have taken a vocal stand against them. But apparently this is what happens when you get a born-again zealot in the White House. Some religions are more equal than others.