Unity Is Elusive as Religious Right Ponders 2000 Vote
You can look up this article in yesterday's NYT if you want, Dwight.
Twenty years after the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority Inc. propelled religious conservatives into a heavyweight force in U.S. politics, the movement is struggling without a clear strategy, and for the first time a debate has erupted among leading figures over whether they should radically scale back their political efforts.
Furthermore, some influential leaders are saying that the best way to change America is not through politics but by building a conservative base through the schooling of children at home or by working to change the hearts and minds of people through Christian preaching and the example of biblically inspired good works.
Offhand, I would say that's in line with a conventional interpretation of Christianity. That kind of action sounds good to me. As opposed to "all Clinton hatred all the time", which, to paraphrase George Will, needs some work as a rallying cry for religious proselytizing. I know you'd prefer to be following the latest "who killed Vince Foster" video from Jerry Falwell, though. Or maybe you're more concerned about the negatory effects of gay Tinky Winky?
On the political front, I don't regard RR hero Ronald Reagan, who couldn't be bothered to go to church and shipped his kids off to boarding school at the earliest opportunity, a particularly good example of "family values", in the Religious right sense or any other. |
