The Christian Right Has Overplayed It's Hand
The mainstream media is giving increasing coverage to the substance of the concern. A Reuters news service story on Thursday was headlined, "US Jews feel threatened by religious right." Here is an excerpt:
U.S. Jewish leaders say they are increasingly worried that Christian conservatives want to turn America politically and culturally into a country that tolerates only their brand of Christianity. Of course, the things that Foxman and Rudin are pointing to have been a strong and serious trend for more than two decades. Now that the dominionist movement has acheived substantial power, they are being far less reserved about their true intentions. The religious supremacism of Christian theocrats, is, as Rudin and Foxman observe in the article, not necessarily anti-Semitic. The lesson in this is getting our minds around the idea that religious supremacism is opposed to democratic pluralism and religious equality -- for all of us. They believe that their version of Christianity is not only correct, but must be imposed via varying degrees of government coercion. The target of this power grab, is not now, nor has it ever been, just Jews. People are increasingly recognizing this. And they are starting to fight back.
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