When Would Jesus Bolt?

[alfreda89]

Fascinating article from The Washington Monthly about moderate religious Republicans leaving the party because they are willing to work with Democrats to reach their goals. (And have been essentially driven out by Rovians and the Religious Right.)

By Amy Sullivan

The Republicans were filibustering the Bible bill. On a Tuesday afternoon in early February, Republican legislators in Alabama took to the crimson-carpeted floor of the state house to oppose legislation that would authorize an elective course on the Bible in public high schools. The recommended curriculum for the course had been vouched for by Christian Right all-stars like Chuck Colson and Ted Haggard, but so far as Republicans were concerned, there was only one pertinent piece of information about the bill: It was sponsored by two Democrats. And now Republicans were prepared to do everything in their procedural power to stop it, even if that meant lining up to explain why they could not(could not!) stand for this attempt to bring a class about the Bible into public schools.


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0604.sullivan.html

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. Genuine Christian values and real conservative principles in this day and age. Who'd'a thunk it?

Scary part is how "liberal" they now are. Downright left-wing.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

That's what frightens the old Religious Right (who are neither) most, I suspect -- someone will pull a Francis of Assisi and bring back true Christian principals and self-reliance. And what follows is their eclipse in the power division.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Indeed. They looked for a niche that would give them as much power as they could grab, from people conditioned to do as they're told without asking questions. Unfortunately for them, there will always be someone sooner or later who wakes up and says, "Wait. It says here that we should believe X and do Y, and we're doing the exact opposite. We're on the wrong side!"

Real Christianity is incredibly radical. Strip away all the garbage piled on it by two millennia of power-grabbers and you end up with everything those power-grabbers are against.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Real Christianity is incredibly radical. Strip away all the garbage piled on it by two millennia of power-grabbers and you end up with everything those power-grabbers are against.

Quite true.

[madspark.livejournal.com]

Good grief, that is completely retarded...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

And shows that 95% of the time, we're talking power, not what voters really want. a lot of charismatic Christians at my various colleges took Bible as literature and history classes, found them very useful, most took Greek and Latin after that, and they remained believers. I figure if the main point is important to you, you believe. The details of how are non-starters.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I have this urge to have run for office as a Democrat merely so I can endorse the off the wall right wing stuff so the Republican party will actually start condeming it...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

{Grin}