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js ...@hotmail.com (John Dylan)
Could anyone direct me to a website where I might find a list of proposed (or successful) legislation (federal or state (any)) that has been initiated by the christian right. I'm looking for something which does a nice job of summarizing the influence of christians on the political system.
Thanks John
jenny68 ...@aol.comClothes (Jenny6833A)
As a start, take a look at the website of the American Family ***ociation.
They love to crow.
For example, they specialize in "model" laws designed to prevent the "blight" of nudity (which they equate to pornography and obscentiy) complete with case studies and reams of stats that purport to prove that a bar with topfree or nude dancers creates havoc in a community.
What they don't mention is that their model laws are weasel worded to prohibit all sorts of other stuff too. "Nude dancing" is defined in a way that prohibits two adults, married to each other, from waltzing or jitterbugging with each other nude at a nudist resort. Prohibition of liquor applies to those same adults at those same resorts. And, of course, children must be kept away from the horrors of nudity -- so parents can't bring their own kids to the private resort they're members of.
Their usual approach is to find a fundy (or abysmally naive) city/county attorney who they prime to bamboozle the city/county council into adopting such a law to prevent said city/county from going to hell in a handbasket. It's all done behind the scenes until, one day, WHAMMO!
In the mid-90s they set a goal of 1000 such anti-nudity laws by the year 2000.
They came nowhere close, but did do a lot of damage.
Go to http://www.afa.net/ When you've looked that over, go to the bottom right and click on Center for Law and Policy. Read every word of the multiple pages under CLP.
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js ...@hotmail.com (John Dylan)
Jenny thank you Jenny. my main reason for the info is for discussion with friends. several of them are republicans, but definitely not christians. they seem genuinely unaware of the weight of christian-right influence in the g.o.p. mostly they seem to feel the christians are just another subset of the party whose influence in limited. i completely disagree with that idea.
thanks John
buckeye- ...@nospam.net
You might look at this I did a Google search using the words christian based legislation http://makeashorterlink.com/?S5FA126D6
Gray Shockley gray-...@cybercoffee.org
Also, +slavery +christian +justification returns about 47,000 "hits".
/Gray/
Al Klein ruk...@pern.invalid
One of the planks of the Repug platform is getting government funding for religion (by way of the dishonest claim that the money is only being given for non-theistic aid to the needy). Violating the Constitution to aid religion isn't the result of a "subset" with "limited influence" - especially since the head of the party is one of the most influential members of the Christian right.
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"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension,...; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
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