RE: The Religious Right

Considering that the Republican Party was founded by Christian abolitionists
in Missouri, it should be no surprise that religious people have been
involved in the policies and politics of the right. What is a surprise is
that there are many who are not aware of the connection between the
religious right and the Republican Party since its inception, and that
somehow it is ok for religious people to be involved when it comes to issues
such as abolition, but not when it comes to other moral issues such as
abortion. Truth is, the left does not want any sense of morality force upon
them. Understandable as that may seem, the south didn't want morality
forced on them either when it came to slavery.

Don P

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Carol or John Burgeson
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:36
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: The Religious Right

For those interested, the paper that sparked the NYT's article on
Evangelicalism last Sunday is at

http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?id=1080

It is by John C. Green.

The interesting thing to me is that from it one apparently can get a
count of how many anti-evolution folks there are in the USA. YECs would
be, of course, a sub set of these.

Burgy
Received on Wed Apr 19 23:49:06 2006