Do you believe that the Religious Right is made up of fanatics who want to turn this country into a theocracy every bit as frightening as Iran's? Who want to roll back all the gains humankind has made since the Enlightenment? Who “tried to bludgeon to death” a courageous Republican politician who opposes them? Who pray for the degradation of the environment in order to hasten the Rapture? Who are latter-day Hitlers wearing crosses instead of swastikas?If that's what you believe, then you qualify to be a respected commentator in the mainstream media. And these commentators are talking not only about high-profile figures like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, but also about the mom and dad next door who attend a mega-church, who try to bring their children up to be good Christians and good Americans…and voted for George W. Bush. What makes the Left's paranoia so ironic is that if you're looking for Americans who want to force their own values on everyone else, you'll have far better luck finding them on the Left than on the Right. Patrick Hynes, a political consultant who is not himself an evangelical, documents the ways the Religious Right has been demonized in the last decade. He also documents in highly useful detail the fact that the Culture Wars were started by the Left: conservative Christians have only fought back. What frightens the Left is that the Christians seem to be winning—and Hynes gives them some great ammunition.
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