Proving the Republicans and Democrats can be equally foolish the chairman of the Democratic National Committee made an appearance on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network last week and pandered to the Religious Right. 

Dean mistakenly stated in the interview that the DNC platform opposed gay marriage (the platform apparently advocates the issue be left up to the states). 

Bruce Wilson correctly points out that Dean's misstatement (perhaps one that was calculated) wasn't the biggest sin.  By simply appearing on Robertson's show it helps to lend legitimacy to a figure that has recently called for the assassination of a foreign leader and blamed God for causing the stroke of Israel's prime minister.  Just this past week Robertson attacked a United Church of Christ minister (Dean is a member of the UCC).

There is nothing wrong with democrats like Dean reaching out and talking to religious conservatives.  We should encourage our political and religious leaders to reach across the aisle and talk to one another.  But this is different.  Dean didn't just reach across the aisle.  He sat down on a show run by someone who has a long history of opposing basic American values of democracy and pluralism and then surrendered the cause of equality on Robertson's alter.