What are you talking about? It wasn't the "religious right" that was legalizing abortion, pushing gay marriage, passing gun control laws,forcing busing, taxing us to death. It was the left. In 1964 how many democrats would have been for gay marriage? The left wing has gone off the rails, and the hated "religious right" has only responded to this leftist insanity. One thing you have in common with liberals is your hatred of religious people. They have the same right as you do to be active politically. The difference is that they are welcome in the republican party. They are not welcome in the democratic party.
agree, but also I think it is more than a little nuts to be yammering about limited government during a war.
Let's say the stakes have been raised.
Once upon a time, the nascent religious right was upset about what kind of books their children were required to read in public schools. Everything from Huckleberry Finn to The Catcher in the Rye and many in between were the topics of newsletters, church group meetings and lectures at service clubs and PTA meetings. Mad magazine even made the list if I recall correctly. (And this was in a time when government schools actually had standards for dress and behavior. Can you imagine the uproar if girls were required to wear skirts today?)
It seems to me that the right and the left are engaged in a contest to see how many laws they can pass at the highest level of government to control people they don't like. The list would be extensive, but how's this for a start: homosexuals, smokers, immigrants, trial lawyers, farmers, salesmen, business executives, mortgage bankers, and (you guessed it!) members of religious orders. (I left out husbands of brain-dead women, but Mr. Gold already mentioned that.)
One thing you have in common with liberals is your hatred of religious people.
Come on. You don't know me. I haven't a hateful bone in my body.