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Here's where the REAL trouble lays, though: even moderate people and institutions have been veering right in the last several years.
Methodist churches in my neck of the woods, for instance: thirty years ago you wouldn't even be able to recognize them compared to today. Even from ten years ago! Now, they are getting quite conservative (it's different in different areas, of course, I am only speaking of my area). So conservative, we were no longer comfortable there and left.
People, too, fall prey to it.
BUT the 80% plus who were firmly against the fundies told me one thing: the fundies can and eventually will go too damn far for MOST of us, republicans, democrats, independents, etc.
Actually we NEED them to go too far. That is the only way the rest of America will wake up and say "WTF?" and start taking away the influence and voices they seem to have now way out of proportion to their numbers.
That voice and influence out of proportion to their numbers is thanks to the republican party deciding to pander to them several years back and has REALLY gotten worse under bush. His administration gave $ 3 BILLION worth of taxpayer money to fundie churches in 2003. If that won't make you feel emboldened, nothing will. Thing is, the bushies up at the top don't REALLY agree with the fundies, they're just using them like a $5 whore. And the day the fundies figure this out (and I think a lot of eyes were opened with Schiavo) will be a bad day for the republican party.
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