Comments like this are a bit snobbish[1], but they're hardly puritanical. America doesn't need "new puritans", it is already full of religious extremists who t

Comments like this are a bit snobbish[1], but they're hardly puritanical. America doesn't need "new puritans", it is already full of religious extremists who think that their personal moral code must be implemented in law for everyone to follow. The Puritans founded pre-USA America, and they haven't gone anywhere. [1] I'm not saying what they said wasn't wrong; it was. I'm just saying it isn't "puritanism".