Conventional Facades: Why the Republicans Have to Hide their Agenda

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/08/far04028.html

What the Republican party is "really going towards," you see, isn’t what most Americans want. For the most part, Jane and John Q. Public aren’t praying for Armageddon or a star-spangled theocracy, and chances are, most don’t even realize how diligently some GOP activists have been laying the groundwork for both.

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Bush’s own Messianic rhetoric aside, since G.W. barreled into power, there have been evangelical fingerprints throughout the Oval Office. From the U.S. approach to Iraq to participation in the global fight against AIDS to the failed Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, the far reach of the far right has been felt like never before.

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Not too long ago, Rep. Tom DeLay also told evangelical Christians that 1) "God is using him to promote ‘a biblical worldview’ in American politics"; 2) He "pursued Bill Clinton's impeachment in part because the Democratic president held "the wrong worldview"; and 3) that "only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview."

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"I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004," Pat Robertson told his 700 Club audience earlier this year, promising that, "It doesn't make any difference what does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."

[glitch]

1. Maureen Farrel is excellent - thanks for posting.

She gathers the info from people I refuse to listen to, like Pat Robertson. It's helpful to know what they are saying. She puts it all together well too.

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