The 'christian' Right was very openly sinister back in the 80's

[ck4829]

RW'ers are critizing Liberals for "sayin' those bad things about the Christian Right".

The 'christian' Right has watered itself down.

There was a big festival here in Columbus this last weekend.

Christians were celebrating and registering to vote, however they did not see the evil thing underneath the festival.

Rod Parsley, a member of the 'christian' Right was actually conditioning people to vote how the Far Right wants beginning with this Ohio 'restoration' Project.

During the Reagan Days, the 'christian' Right was not some force that if you criticized it, you were called Anti-Christian. Most people, including Moderate Conservatives, really did see the 'christian' Right as American Ayatollahs.

Here is some more information from my LexisNexis Fact Finding Mission.

The Washington Post
Jewish Leader Attacks Reagan-Falwell Link
October 31, 1984

"The head of a national Jewish human rights organization today said there is nothing innocent about President Reagan's involvement with right-wing Christian fundamentalists.

Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, told a national gathering of Christian and Jewish leaders that under the leadership of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and others, the Christian right has "placed themselves at the very heart of the conservative movement in America." And, he said, the Christian right has, with Reagan's blessing, "seemed to have taken control of the Republican Party" as well.

"What is particularly ominous is that all of this has happened with the support and blessing of our president," the rabbi said, adding, "There is nothing innocent about the president's involvement."

Siegman assailed as unconstitutional the contention of Falwell and other fundamentalist Protestants that this is a "Christian" nation in which non-Christians are a "deviation from established orthodoxy." "

WALL STREET JOURNAL
NEED TO ALERT YOUTH TO AIDS DANGER IS DILEMMA FOR ADMINISTRATION CAUTIOUS ON SEX EDUCATION
November 21, 1986
"Article finds urgency of health problem posed by acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in US is raising touchy political dilemma for Reagan Administration--which is under pressure to act from Surgeon General but is afraid of angering conservatives and Christian Right by promoting explicit explanations about sex."

The Washington Post
Falwell Attempts to Mend Interfaith Fences;
Despite His Ties to Israel, Many Jews See Moral Majority Leader as Nemesis
April 4, 1985

"Article finds urgency of health problem posed by acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in US is raising touchy political dilemma for Reagan Administration--which is under pressure to act from Surgeon General but is afraid of angering conservatives and Christian Right by promoting explicit explanations about sex."

He remains the nemesis of many American Jews, the point man of what they consider an intolerable right-wing threat to America's unique religious pluralism and a major reason that 71 percent of them voted for President Reagan's opponent last November.

To the chagrin of his U.S. critics, however, Falwell is received as an ex-officio ambassador of America's new Christian right by Israeli leaders who, despite pressure from some Jewish liberals, dare not turn away such a staunch supporter. At home, Falwell is making a major effort to mend fences with the Jewish community -- a political mission that some critics charge has a frightening theological motivation.

"I'm going to be their friend whether they want me to or not," Falwell said in an interview."

[JAbuchan08]

1. As young as i am I remember a time when the christian right

was outside of the mainstream of not only America, but CHristianity itself.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. I truly think it still is. nt

[JAbuchan08]

4. Sure, if you want this discussion to be grounded in 'reality' it is

but the right has done a very good job of tying their agenda in with 'mainstream' christianity and mainstream conservative. Sure, they've disguised their agenda, but in terms of getting people who might otherwise disagree with it to accept that it is a 'reasonable' position to hold they've entered the mainstream.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. They want us to believe they are mainstream

but I refuse to believe it. I read that 26K voted in the last election (fundamentalists) but that is not the majority by any means. A huge voting block, yes. Mainstream? NO!

[bryant69]

3. The Dominionists are scary

it's hard to know exactly how much power they actually have, but any power to that group is more power than I want them to have.

Bryant
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