'Christian' Right struggling to maintain it's hard-line positions

Randy Brinson is a worried man. A staunch Republican and devout Baptist, Dr Brinson can claim substantial credit for getting George Bush re-elected in 2004. It was his Redeem the Vote initiative that may have persuaded up to 25 million people to turn out for President Bush. Yet his wife is receiving threats from anonymous conservative activists warning her husband to stay away from politics.

"They've been calling my house, threatening my wife," said Dr Brinson. "The first time was on a day when I was going up to Washington to speak to Republicans in Congress. Only they knew I'd be away from home. The Republicans were advised not to turn up to listen to me, so only three did so."

The reason he has fallen foul of men whose candidate he helped re-elect is that he has dared to question the partisan tactics of the religious right. "Conservatives speak in tones that they have got power and they can do what they want. Only 23% of the population embraces those positions but if someone questions their mandate or wants to articulate a different case, for the moderate right, they are totally ridiculed."

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Rich Cizik, vice-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the largest such umbrella group in the US, is also feeling battered. His mistake has been to become interested in the environment, and he has been told that is not on the religious right's agenda.

Mr Cizik, an ordained minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian church and otherwise impeccably conservative on social issues such as abortion, stem-cell research and homosexuality, believes concern for the environment arises from Biblical injunctions about the stewardship of the Earth. The movement's political leadership, however, sees the issue as a distraction from its main tactical priorities: getting more conservatives on the supreme court, banning gay marriages and overturning Roe v Wade, the 1973 abortion ruling.

"It is supposed to be counterproductive even to consider this. I guess they do not want to part company with the president. This is nothing more than political assassination. I may lose my job. Twenty-five church leaders asked me not to take a political position on this issue but I am a fighter," he said.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-02.htm

Randy Brinson initiated the "Redeem the Vote" campaign. Yet, for some reason, the angry seem to be calling HIS WIFE and threatening her. HUH? The republicans were advised "not to show up an listen to me?" WTF?

This guy is a fucking paranoid nut job. Case closed.

If there's anything consistant about fascist politics, it is that any supporter who drifts away from the party line must be destroyed. They make good examples for other waverers.

You don't think they only try to use fear against US, do you?

Fuck 'em.

their faces get stuck on the exhaust pipes of volvos. Maybe if a little environmental catastrophe hit then, like Liberty Baptist "university" gets hit with a tsunami, they would change their tunes.

truly are different from what the wacko RW pastors around here say. You can read some of his writing condemning the radical christians on the website: http://www.redeemthevote.com/

Too bad it takes something this drastic for it to happen. At this rate, I don't know if the country will be able to hang on until we finally reach the tipping point.