lebell, I don't think there are any actual examples of teachers keeping kids from praying or having bibles in school. If there are, they are isolated incidents of misguided individuals. Liberals have no problem with Christianity. Most of us are Christian.
The religious right is one of the most powerful organizations in the U.S. They run the White House and Congress. "Radical liberals" are...what? Can you even name ONE organization that would qualify? One liberal organization or group pushing to eliminate the right to pray in school?
The religious right are a highly organized group of radicals dedicated to forcing everyone in the United States to become Christian. Liberals have no such goal of, what? Forcing everyone to be atheists? Gay?
The religious right has TV shows, fundraisers, elected officials, televangelists, and more. The left has no such apparatus, and even if it did, I don't know what end it would strive for.
The point is, the religious right is WAY WAY WAY further from centrists than liberals are. At most, you could point to...Bernie Sanders? I mean, liberal beliefs are fairly moderate compared to the religious right.
In conclusion, the religious right has no liberal counterpart. Because liberals in the U.S. want sensible things like universal health care, more progressive taxes, and an increased focus on the environment. The large and powerful religous right wants to force one religion upon everyone. This just isn't a case of both sides being equally bad at the extremes.
EDIT - Let's not forget that the radical right pushes bigotry towards gays as standard rhetoric. Ther religious right is 100 times further to the right than liberals are to the left.
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