The Christian Right - the hard rock Conservative Evangelical churches - have been victims of the so-called Republican Conservatives for almost 50 years - the plan was to play to the part of this nation that dislikes women - other women - blacks - Jews - Catholics - people of any sort of non-white tint - give them as little as possible, and get their votes. It worked in spades - divided the country thoroughly - re-established a divisive class system - elected four Presidents and a bunch of other politicians. But it caught up with the power brokers in background this year - and it is going to get worse.
However naive that Christian Right leadership was - it paid heavily for its role in the world of the GOP - and got little in return. Worse yet - matters which mattered to that politic have been dumped - where was the push this year for anti-abortion wins - no real push on the stem cell issues - and after GOP Congressmen and a significant leader of the Evangelical movement got caught in the sack with the boys - red faces on gay issues. The next thing you know - we are going to consider everybody equal - let people live their private lives they way the like in private - and stop trying to tell other people what to do with their bodies in private - be forgiving - oppose the death penalty and all in the name of an executed Messiah. Damn it is going to be good to be rid of the conservative GOP.
The real victims in the Christian Right movement are the parishoners - those decent folks screwed over by the words of the GOP leadership in cahoots with paid clergy - in matters of faith - in matters of political choice - and worse -in the way that clergy and church leadership raped the pocketbooks of those in the pews.
Even with all this - the decent Christian people in the country will find their way to good candidates and support of issues -- but as good US citizens rather than as disciplined robots of the Church and the State.
John Isaacson
Director
Presidential-Appointments.org
However naive that Christian Right leadership was - it paid heavily for its role in the world of the GOP - and got little in return. Worse yet - matters which mattered to that politic have been dumped - where was the push this year for anti-abortion wins - no real push on the stem cell issues - and after GOP Congressmen and a significant leader of the Evangelical movement got caught in the sack with the boys - red faces on gay issues. The next thing you know - we are going to consider everybody equal - let people live their private lives they way the like in private - and stop trying to tell other people what to do with their bodies in private - be forgiving - oppose the death penalty and all in the name of an executed Messiah. Damn it is going to be good to be rid of the conservative GOP.
The real victims in the Christian Right movement are the parishoners - those decent folks screwed over by the words of the GOP leadership in cahoots with paid clergy - in matters of faith - in matters of political choice - and worse -in the way that clergy and church leadership raped the pocketbooks of those in the pews.
Even with all this - the decent Christian people in the country will find their way to good candidates and support of issues -- but as good US citizens rather than as disciplined robots of the Church and the State.
John Isaacson
Director
Presidential-Appointments.org
