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To: KLP who wrote (13327)	10/21/2003 5:16:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

I was raised Catholic. I'm quite aware of where it fits in the taxonomy of religious organizations. The Catholic Church has gotten involved in politics on occasion. It has generally favored Democratic issues--poverty, immigration, and anti-war come to mind, although they don't on abortion. I had in mind the Evangelical Christians when I simply said "Christians" since that is what we were talking about. They are a stronghold of the Republican party. Folks like Teddy Kennedy certainly aren't Republican. I will try one more time to make my point. The difference is that the Evangelical Christians, a vocal part of the Republican base, are different from other religious such as Teddy Kennedy in that the former want to effectively make this a Christian country as distinguished from other religious who merely vote their religion influenced consciences or issues (or sometimes who their priest tells them to vote for, sez she based on personal experience <g>). The latter want to retain a secular framework. The former want, as flows from their spread-the-word mandate, to move us in the direction of a theocracy. That is a very different thing. A much more disturbing thing to me. I am old enough to remember John Kennedy's run for President. I was a college freshman. I recall how many people in the dorm and their families feared that the Pope would take over the US if he were elected. Well, that didn't happen at all. Carter and Clinton, while conspicuously religous, didn't initiate any faith-based government programs, for example. There is a difference.