BBC NEWS | Americas | US evangelicals warn Republicans
Prominent leaders from the Christian right have warned Republicans they must do more to advance conservative values ahead of the US mid-term elections.
I want to know why prominent progressive Christians and secular, non-religious political progressives aren’t contacting their Congresspersons to warn them they “must do better” in the struggle for the separation of church and state in this country.
The story claims that about one-quarter of Americans self-identify as evangelical Christians. Of that number, how many are actually progressives, rather than conservatives?
The way they run things in Washington, you’d think the social conservatives enjoyed a numerical majority in the US population, but they don’t. So why do they get to call the tune? Because they pay the piper.
So, all you social progressives of whatever or no faith, speak up. Contact your representative and Senators and tell them that you’re concerned about the Religious Right taking over and remaking this country into a theocracy some day.
Don’t laugh, it could happen. When they manage to outlaw legal abortion, they’re going after contraception. They’ve been bucking Plan B for years, and now they’re looking to remove contraceptive coverage for low-income women in Missouri. Which apparently hasn’t been funded in that great state for 3 years – they recently voted down an attempt to insert fundng in the most recent budget.
Not only that, but some demographer on NPR thinks that progressives will be extinct someday, because they have a much lower birthrate than social conservatives, a position I feel duty bound to oppose. Being a liberal is not always a matter of family upbringing; more often it’s a consequence of being an free-thinking, reality-based individual. Such individuals will always flee oppressive groups and find a way to express themselves freely, in a community that tolerates and celebrates their difference.
My biggest worry is that the future of this country is one where the God-botherers rule over their flocks of mindless, unquestioning sheep. My biggest hope is the amazing diversity of people, and their unwillingness and inability to do exactly as they’re told.
Question authority, everyone.
