Posted on 08/15/2015 8:39:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Religous conservatives aren't going quietly into the night, Americans United's Barry Lynn tells Salon.
Because non-politicians like Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson have garnered the most attention during the GOP presidential primary thus far, another distinctive feature of this cycle’s batch of candidates has gone relatively unnoticed. For all the talk and hype about the GOP modernizing and learning the lessons of the George W. Bush era — and for all the breathless speculation about the millennial generation and how it demands of politicians a different approach — the religious right’s presence within the party remains formidable. The aforementioned Carson, for example, is in the habit of crediting God as inspiration for his tax reform proposals. And if he’s not explaining public policy through religion, competitors like Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee can be relied on to step in for him.
The unbroken influence of the religious right over one of America’s two major political parties is just one of the many reasons why “God & Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience,” the latest book from the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is so valuable. For a quarter-decade, Lynn has been struggling with the forces that propel figures like Huckabee to the national stage and allow them to come so close to the reins of power. And while the recent, epochal successes of the gay rights movement, as well as the continued ascendance of pop feminism, may lead you to think that Mike Huckabee’s America is coming to an end, Lynn reminds us that keeping religious fundamentalism out of public policy requires constant vigilance.
Recently, Salon spoke over the phone with Lynn about his work...
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I can only wish Salon would go away.
Then there’d be two dozen more whites holding hands to block cars at #BlackLivesMatter protests.
Two and a half years?
They think Trump is the answer to finally take out the religious right. And he may be able to do it more than anything else they’ve tried.
Why would he? What’s in it for him? You always have to look at that. What’s the motivation?
The religious right is very dangerous.
Far more dangerous than ISIS/ISIL.
Attention and power. (Plus, he has no use for Christians)
Do you PERSONALLY KNOW Don Trump? Do you live in his neighborhood or something? Do they still manufacture those scale model airplanes or trains? Go buy one and get a hobby.
Neither is the godless left.
Quarter-century, quarter-decade. What’s the diff. Words mean nothing to Libturds.
Ummm....
Well yes....
It IS going away.
and the world will get exactly what it wanted.
Let’s hope Salon ends up like Gawker
“Groan.”
Exactly. They’re desperately trying to play this card again.
Trump said he would protect religious freedom.
Another one from Salon today, too:
And these are some of the corporate sponsors of Salon, which I’ve been noting lately:
Godaddy.com
Time Warner Cable
Nutro
AT&T
Nissan
Kim Crawford
Power4Patriots
Progressive
Allstate
GMC
Snickers
NordicTrack
American Red Cross
Chrysler
LifeLock
Panera
Iams
This man has ignored or been hostile to religion all his life. Now you want to trust him to protect religion? Do you also trust Obama to do that?
I just said what Trump said. I was just correcting the record.
Really, I don’t know what to believe in Trump’s expression or any politician’s expression. I know that GOPe is hostile to Christians. Some talk nice but we see things only get worse. I want to give Cruz a try.
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