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At a press conference following the screening of his film Dogma , which will have its first public showing October 4 as part of the New York Film Festival, the writer, director, and professed devout Catholic Kevin Smith appeared both shell-shocked and befuddled by the outrage that his movie, sight unseen, had provoked.
Described as an insecure follower with no personality and with limited knowledge of Islam, Bahaji nonetheless professed his readiness to engage in violence.
Columbine had the great hook: kids, especially the unfortunate girl who professed her belief in God and became an instant martyr.
If we consider the right-wing politicians and media people on your list as actually believing their professed ideology, which I'm not sure they all do, I think yes, orthodoxers of one sort or another are often fighting the return of the repressed: a stop-me-before-I-divorce-again kind of a thing.
(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)