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Indiana's Religious Left Flexes Its Political Muscle
NPR ^ | Dec 6, 2018 | Lauren Chapman

Posted on 12/06/2018 6:53:27 AM PST by posterchild

Vice President Mike Pence often describes his conservative religious views as "Hoosier values." It's a consistent narrative in a state that, with the exception of 2008, has voted for Republican presidents since 1980.

The religious right in Indiana has long been a powerful political force. But now a progressive interfaith movement, called Faith In Indiana, is trying to challenge that foothold.

The group, consisting of­ a broad political spectrum of Muslims, Jews and Christians, has organized in minority communities on issues like immigration, universal health care, criminal justice reform, and early childhood education.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
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1 posted on 12/06/2018 6:53:27 AM PST by posterchild
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To: posterchild

Ah, NPR, the spokescreeps of the left.

And, of course, they gulp gubmit funds without shame.

Oh well, we’ll have a special guillotine for them following CW-II.


2 posted on 12/06/2018 6:55:18 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: posterchild

Any Jew or Christian that works politically with a mooselimb is asking for it (in the neck)...


3 posted on 12/06/2018 6:58:01 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Da Coyote

My first reaction also - its NPR. The home of “fake news.”


4 posted on 12/06/2018 7:00:15 AM PST by PGR88
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To: posterchild
issues like immigration, universal health care, criminal justice reform, and early childhood education.

The Working Families Party with a Cross on the door.


5 posted on 12/06/2018 7:04:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: posterchild

There is no religious left or right - there is only God and His law.

That these communists are once again trying to politicize and control religion is not surprising in the least.


6 posted on 12/06/2018 7:06:25 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Buckeye McFrog

When they list “immigration” as an issue, that’s really code for “pro-illegal immigration”.


7 posted on 12/06/2018 7:07:05 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Skywise

I wonder what percent are ‘liberation theology’ adherents.


8 posted on 12/06/2018 7:12:15 AM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: posterchild

WTF does this country fund NPR! It is insane.


9 posted on 12/06/2018 7:55:58 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

You’re right.


10 posted on 12/06/2018 6:50:34 PM PST by Amberdawn
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