Thursday, May 12, 2005
The Tail Wagging the Republican Dog
You used to think they were harmless lunatics, didn't you. But, now you see people reading the Left Behind series and you wonder what that's all about. Perhaps they're changing the curriculum at your kid's school, or demanding that certain books be removed from the library. You wonder if Bill Frist will have to go nuclear to line them up for his presidential bid, and you ask yourself: will they really control who the next justice to the Supreme Court will be?
Not long ago, they were just pawns in the Republican party vote getting machine. Now, they seem to be the tail that's wagging the Republican dog.
Maybe, you think, I should learn a little bit more about them. Well, here's a good a good place to start, "America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives?" By Steve Weissman on the truthout.org website.
Not long ago, they were just pawns in the Republican party vote getting machine. Now, they seem to be the tail that's wagging the Republican dog.
Maybe, you think, I should learn a little bit more about them. Well, here's a good a good place to start, "America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives?" By Steve Weissman on the truthout.org website.
