Intellectual Dishonesty and Moral Equivalence

The furor over the Ground Zero Mosque is illustrative of the unbridgeable moral chasm between the left and the right.  The left tends to equivocate moral issues, rather than understand or accept the absolutism of morality that the right, especially the generally more religious right respects and embraces.  It is dishonest and intellectually dissonant.
Outspoken voices on the left are incorrectly and even antagonistically comparing the opposition to building the mosque to racism and bigotry.  It's the typical leftist deflective straw man.  Recent polling shows the majority of Americans support, understand and respect the concept of property rights and religious freedoms.  Yet the issue for those opposing the building of the mosque is purely an issue of propriety and sensitivity.  The gaping would left by terrorists who attacked in the name of Islam is still painful.  Opponents of the mosque are simply asking for compassion, for it to be built somewhere less confrontational.
But the left, long opposed to any semblance of religion in public life, and those who support the building of the mosque have inexplicably and suddenly found respect for religious freedom.  Is it because they are Muslim, rather than Christian?  A Greek Orthodox church was also destroyed in the attacks of 9/11.  Yet bureaucratic impediments have prevented it from being rebuilt for nine years.  The left always feels compelled to support its perceived victims of oppression.  Once again Muslims are, in the minds of leftist equalists, being persecuted by an intolerant America.
The left is taking an argument based on an unrelated principle and twisting it.  Recently prominent members of the media have made comparisons to Timothy McVeigh's supposed Christianity, equivocating opposition to the mosque to Catholic and Christian churches in proximity to the federal building that was bombed in Oklahoma City.  "What if people had asked for Christian churches to be moved away because Timothy McVeigh was Christian?" they ask.  Perplexingly, Christianity and Islam are equivalent in the mind of the leftist.  Never mind that Timothy McVeigh's purported Christianity was completely irrelevant to his actions, if he was even Christian to begin with.  His faith, or lack thereof, was not readily apparent, whereas Muslim extremist terrorists routinely and blatantly commit their acts of horror in the name of Islam.
Besides, according to the left, at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing McVeigh was driven to his despicable actions by the words of radio talk show hosts.
The right generally understands the concept of absolutism.  It is an integral component of the Judeo-Christian tradition.  Right is right, and wrong is wrong.  Good is good, and evil is evil.  Law is law.  There's not a lot of wiggle room.  Consequently the moral relativism of the left is maddening.  The acts of horror committed by a crazy man are attributed to a supposed Christianity equal to a violent Muslim extremism and convenient to today's argument, equated to a completely unrelated situation.  Moral acrobatics worthy of Barnum and Bailey.