The "new Religious Right" frame gets more ridiculous
Filed by: Alex Blaze
March 25, 2008 2:36 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/the_new_religious_right_frame_gets_more.phpThis is just getting silly.
I know that after 2006 it's fashionable for these people to say that they're part of a revitalization of the evangelical movement - not so focused on gay marriage and abortion; more so on poverty, foreign policy, and the environment - but if it's to mean anything, then not everyone can claim to be part of that new movement.
But Sarah Posner has a post up at TAP on Tony Perkins and the new book he co-wrote with Harry Jackson on their agenda for the new Religious Right. You may remember Tony Perkins as the president of the Family Research Council and Harry Jackson as the HILC president and Huckabee supporter who got the national spotlight when he put out an ad saying Black preachers would be silenced by hate crimes legislation and when he became Jim Naugle's sidekick during the robo-toilet incident in Fort Lauderdale.
In other words, these two are definitely not signs of a shift in attitudes among evangelicals.
