Hunter was and is the Lib slayer!
Posted on 05/21/2007 7:53:59 AM PDT by pissant
Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, in light of recent remarks regarding the religious right I wanted to urge my colleagues to read the following Review & Outlook article from today's Wall Street Journal. I found the article very interesting and believe my colleagues will also. Call it whatever they may--the Christian right, the radical religious right, conservative Christians--it's clear that word of a vast new conspiracy against freedom, democracy and, oh yes, tolerance, is getting to be big news. This process oozed to a peak of sorts last week when Rep. Vic Fazio, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, condemned the `religious right.' Following his declamation came President Clinton's attack on certain evangelical Christians. How seriously are we supposed to take these people?
We'll leave it to Mr. Clinton to get to the bottom of whether his own staff or the press were violating the Seventh Commandment in the bathrooms of the USS George Washington. But here is Mr. Fazio on the one hand carrying on about activist Christians and their `secretiveness' and describing them, confidently, as `what the American people fear the most.' This is the same Rep. Fazio who last February refused to vote for a resolution condemning Khalid Muhammad, aide to Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Mr. Muhammad, recall, had been out on college campuses with this message of fellow-feeling: `We kill everything white. . . . We kill the women, we kill the children, we kill the babies. . . we kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian, we kill them all.' And something about the `cracker' pope. When time came to vote, Rep. Fazio rose to attest that while he deplored Mr. Muhammad's views, it was also true that we now had a President `who values the diversity that is America.' Moreover, Mr. Fazio declared, he did not think it Congress's job to `evaluate' expressions of bigotry. Possibly the author of these virtuous pronouncements can tell us whether there is any room in `the diversity that is America' for those Christian activists he has just described as a `peril' and `what the American people fear the most.'
Details of the threats posed by the Radical Religious Right can now be heard--and read--every day. On the New York Times' opinion page, columnist Frank Rich accuses the Christian Action Network of mounting an assault in the tradition of Senator McCarthy and of attempting to spread `homophobic panic.'
The cause of Mr. Rich's excitation had to do with the questions being raised, once again, about funding by National Endowment for the Arts. Its beneficiary, performer Ron Athey--an artist at the cutting edge of sorts--caused a ruckus during a theater performance when he sliced into another man's back. Mr. Rich earnestly explained that this performance was a way of dramatizing the homosexual artist's struggles and that, anyway, the blood produced by this piece of artistry was HIV negative. He took the occasion, further, to commend new NEA head Jane Alexander for her stalwart defense of artistic freedom.
Ms. Alexander herself recently announced that true Christians should speak up to counter the intolerance of conservative Christians who targeted the NEA. The NEA head went on to muse that she would have a hard time bringing herself to approve of any project that had `a terrible racial or homophobic slur.' Would that we could know whether Ms. Alexander might have such trouble funding a work of `art' like Serrano's `Piss Christ'--consisting of a crucifix dipped in urine.
Meanwhile, of course, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, avowed opponent of those she describes as the `un-Christian' religious right, recites hymns to condoms and the possibility of drug legalization.
Also among those agitated about the Christian `right' is the Anti-Defamation League, which recently produced a tome outlining the various forms of menace posed by `stealth' candidates of the Christian right. This massive study is--in its complex drawings of vast secret conspiracies and ominous interconnections--reminiscent of nothing so much as the work of that fabled political star of the `50s, Senator McCarthy.
There is something, it must be said, wonderful in the spectacle of all these defenders of democracy and pluralism now busy alerting the nation to the menace of `the Christian Right.' For the menace, in their descriptions, all comes down to the same remarkable charge: namely that Evangelicals and other Christians have committed the crime of getting into politics to make their views heard. In the strange view of the defenders of `pluralism' getting into public politics is equal to `extremism.'
The last time we looked, the Christians were winning--elections, that is. The Democrats, who control Washington, our very own Rome, have been losing votes. We guess this means that in a democracy, you don't always have to go meekly to the lions.
Hunter was and is the Lib slayer!
Thanks for posting these older transcripts.
It makes me feel better that he isn’t a “born again” conservative.
LOL. He hasn’t had to have a “Road to Des Moines” conversion , in the words of the other patriot, Tom Tancredo.
So far Rep. Duncan Hunter’s past is consistent with his present. I see why the MSM tries avoid him.
In the last debate, Hunter was not asked questions that were intended to make him stand out, which he did not. It seems that the media FOX included want to keep Hunter, Tancredo, Huckabee, and Gilmore, as second tier candidates and push Romney, McCain, and Rudy on us.
Other than what you are doing, which here is sort of “preaching to the choir”, these guys need to get some face time.
Hunter got very high miarks from the debates from Talk radio, despite the few questions he recieved. He was able to forcefully communicate his disgust with our trade deals with China and with China itself. This is going to loom large.
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Hunter from 1994 on the Democrats’ treatment of the “Radical Religious Right”.
It reads like a humor piece. XD
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Just in case you’re around...
You’d like this one!
Good post. For later read.
If he is still in the race, I will vote for Hunter in Iowa.
Wonderful! I’m always proud that he doesn’t pull a President Bush. He doesn’t mince words with the liberals. He fires back, and he lets them know his disgust. He doesn’t back down. He is exactly the sort we need in this country, especially if Pelosi is still Speaker of the House. He’ll stand up to the libs and terrorists for sure.
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Christians eat lions.
(I stoled that from Father West of Priests for Life.)
While I have always described myself as a Reagan Conservative, and never saw myself as JUST a part of the religious right (it's too narrow a definition for me), I have always stood up to defend the right of religious people to speak out and become politically active. I have long been aware of the tactics and the effort to shut them (us) up. I can't begin to count the number of calls I have made to talk radio on this issue, going back AT LEAST 15 years, or the number of times I defended their (our) right to be politically active going back to my university days.
It's nothing new. The left will continue to attempt to demonize the religious right, and the religious right must continue to fight back.
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