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Analyzing the Troubles of the Christian Right
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
I'm just getting around to posting an interesting observation by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, at a gathering of conservative leaders, many of them evangelical and Catholic, last week at a suburban Washington D.C. golf club. Sponsored by InsideCatholic.com, the mission (before the golf) was to dissect the "future of the Christian vote."
And dissect they did. In his presentation, Norquist argued that the religious right should look to the National Rifle Association for tips on winning elections.
The way Norquist sees it, the NRA doesn't make any attempt to portray itself as the majority of the electorate, whereas the religious right does. He said the NRA never assumes that everyone wants to own a gun. Its message: Leave me alone and let me have my guns
Norquist said conservative Christian leaders are basically too aggressive. They should be playing more defense and less offense, he says, because they're scaring the bejeezuz out of everyone who's not in their corner.
The Christian right should adopt more of the attitude of "leave me alone and let me raise my kids" and not "everybody agrees with me, therefore you have to do what I say," according to Norquist.
The religious conservatives should be defending what will always win general sympathy, for example, parental rights, he said.
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June 7, 2009; 8:34 PM ET
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Posted by: WmarkW | June 10, 2009 7:24 AM
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Parental rights don't win sympathy if you're looking like your bringing up military-weapon-stockpiling anti-American *culties,* of course.
Funny how they were all about having the 'right' *not* to leave others alone with something as intimate as 'sex' when they claimed control of the Federal government, and now they want to 'change tacks.'
Somehow I don't think they'll have changed in their lack of respect for rights for others, but maybe one day.. after some quality time with their beloved arsenals, they'll learn to treat others as the new 'strategy' says they 'only' want to be treated.
Posted by: Paganplace | June 8, 2009 2:18 PM
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It's not my impression that Religious Righters believe they're prevented from living their own lives according to their values. The issues on which they're most apparent -- homosexual marriage, abortion, prayer in school and other public forums -- are not principally prohibitions on them.