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Article: Christian right's set of strategies may obscure a more sinister goal. (more about politics than morals) (Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 4, 1994
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The Christian right is about politics, about biblical inerrancy and about beleaguered people seeking certainty in an uncertain world. Banning books at libraries, coercing libraries to buy books and trumpeting an anti-gay agenda at every opportunity (see stories pages 5-7) are a mix of all three.
The Christian right's most public gathering, the Christian Coalition, also concerns itself at its most distasteful with a sort of "white bread" Christian supremacy and U.S. Manifest Destiny.
The Christian right doesn't bother much about the poor, except to want them out of the way, busily pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. In the Christian right's view, ...