Jim Wallis, author of the best-selling "Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It," hosted a get-together in Washington, D.C. attended by a couple of Democrat heavyweights (yes, even a lightweight party can have its "heavyweights"), Howard Dean and, drum roll, please ... Hillary Clinton.

Called, ''Pentecost 2006,'' the purpose of the meeting – as far as I can tell – was to try out some new material for a play they all hope to star in called, Bishop Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bible.

Here's the plot: A deranged chairman of a once great political party starts a process to pretend to be sympathetic to the concerns of those of deep religious faith and a political war room of Anti-American media types frantically try to cover up from their readers and viewers (there are no listeners as liberal radio programs are now less popular than short-wave broadcasts out of Tijuana) details of the scam! Pretty zany, don't you think?

Like most poll-iticians on the left, these aspiring actors and their director, Mr. Wallis, want to disengage churchgoers from concerns about abortion and homosexuality and refocus them on poverty and the environment. All in the name of ''entertainment.''

Set to open in November, 2006, Democrats are hoping for a standing room only response at the polls and at a theater near you.

Now, in this hilarious fictional work (which is based on a true story, I hear), we won't get much dialogue from the performers about religion and the Bible when it comes to abortion and ''gay'' marriage. They will instead dance around these top-of-mind issues and take a sideways approach to pandering to church-going types by singing wonderful songs advancing hard-left positions on the evils of tax cuts, voting rights to felons, socialized medicine, etc.

The hook is, it will all sound very much like religion and the left-wing political agenda go hand-in-hand. Like in the old Soviet Union.

Some critics who have seen the script complain the writers, directors and performers – Democrats – don't appear to be sincere in their faith. That is, they don't use religion to find peace and truth within themselves, they use it like a souless attorney who will say anything to win a case. That is, they say what they think the jury wants to hear. At least, that's the way the script for Bishop Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bible, reads.

These same critics continue with their harsh review. They stress how lawyerly it all feels. It is political, yet it is billed as a play that deals with the important religious issues of our day. But, the critics say, this is pure manipulation. Democrats involved in this stinker are certain to turn off a large potential audience of Christians because it all seems so contrived. So forced.

Some are even saying this whole thing is really just a sham – it isn't a play to entertain, it is a thinly-veiled attempt to pick up votes in the upcoming election. Imagine! They also contend these entertainers are nothing more than poll-iticians – of the worst kind. People like Howard and Hillary are secular poll-iticians who despise the very people they are ''wooing.'' At least, it is said they come off that way. Audience members know that because they themselves oppose abortion on moral grounds, they are considered narrow-minded, intolerant and unsophisticated by liberals.

That's why Bishop Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bible will close after the first week.

Why? Well, the script and the sincerity of the performers are factors. We know a little bit about Howard and Hillary in their ''real'' lives outside the political theatre. Do you remember Howard or Hillary coming to the defense of the valedictorian who was not allowed to talk about her faith in her speech to her classmates? Do you recall Howard or Hillary coming to the defense of the football teams who were told they could not pray before their games? I must have missed it when Howard and Hillary took a strong public stand on behalf of private Christian groups who wanted to hold a meeting in a public-school classroom after hours and were denied that simple request. And I certainly don't have any memory of Howard and Hillary throwing a fit when the Ten Commandments were removed from courtrooms and public property in recent years.

If they did any of this, they haven't been very forthcoming. Audiences pick up on this sort of thing. I know that shouldn't matter because we're talking about a harmless play. But people store those facts away. They aren't stupid.

Maybe it is just some poll-iticians up on a stage having a good time. But there are people out there like me who think religion is not a play thing to be used as a tool for manipulative poll-iticians. To me, this effort to fool those of faith is sickening. Just like when the left lies to us about their support for the troops, but not their mission. The secular left also says they support the congregation, but not their mission. These are lies meant to gain votes and approval ratings. There is nothing worse than a posturing, pandering, condescending poll-itician. Especially one who uses faith and people of faith to assist their advancement of a secular agenda.

But there I go getting carried away. It's just a show. I need to sit back and enjoy the performance of Jim Wallis, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the best. Hey, maybe if I go into this with the right attitude, I'll watch and have a good laugh at their expense.

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