As mentioned yesterday, an interfaith coalition called We Believe Ohio is determined to keep gutter politics out of Ohio during the upcoming election cycle by summoning the moral authority of religious leaders and the will of the people to tell the campaigns what they will affirm and what they will condemn.

A hop, skip and a jump across the Ohio River, we're seeing some sleaze on election day in Kentucky. On election eve Governor Ernie Fletcher suddenly chose to put the Ten Commandments in the state capitol and fly around the state proclaiming himself the values candidate, and at the same time the state GOP and some mysterious outfit that loves Fletcher very much are making automated calls telling voters that Steve Beshear, his likely victorious opponent is a partisan of "the homosexual lobby" and "every homosexual cause." Message -- vote for God or vote for Sodom.

Fletcher is deliberately (and desperately) polarizing voters, and polarization feeds on feeds off of distrust, misunderstanding, and animosity. Simply put, it is spiritually degrading.