Considering that Bawer is really getting to the bottom of where the anti-Jihad in Europe is coming from, I find it interesting to note where Mr. Bawer’s mindset comes from. Sounds like an anti-religious kook to me - Mr. Bawer seems to have discovered the secret in Europe….it’s those doggone Christians again!

From The Guardian piece called Anglicans in America by Bruce Bawer:

I can’t pretend to write objectively about these matters. I’m a gay man who - having counted myself lucky to have grown up in a non-religious household in New York - became an active Episcopalian in my early 30s. No, I hadn’t been “born again.” I’d been seduced by Anglicanism, which - in a religious landscape dominated by self-righteous, bible-thumping preachers of hypocritical “family values” and the prosperity gospel - approached the mystery of life in a way that not only made sense to me but spoke to me deeply.