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Article: Shotgun wedding: notes on public education's encounter with the new Christian right. (Kappan Special Report)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- May 1, 1994
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"They feel the hand of God moving them within, and the impulses of the Spirit, and cannot be mistaken in what they feel."
-- John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
THE REJUVENATED Christian Right is the self-appointed conscience of American society. Without its unique brand of divinely inspired goading, its leaders believe, the nation is destined to sink into the compost heaps of atheism and secular humanism.[1] Armed with Biblical virtue and an unwavering certainty that they are right, the legions of the Christian Right are displaying unforeseen clout and sophistication in the public square of education.
The ...