Religious Right Weighs Next Political Steps

[fencesitter]

Heard this on NPR yesterday.

Listen or read: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96970061

Religious Right Weighs Next Political Steps
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty


"I knew, moments after the election results came in, that I was now part of the resistance movement," says Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.

Wright believes Obama is a threat to Christian beliefs, even though the president-elect is a confessed Christian. She argues the election was not a rejection of conservative values. After all, three states — California, Arizona and Florida — passed referenda banning same-sex marriage. So the day after the election, Wright sent out this telemarketing ad to thousands of people across the country.

"We face a president and Congress more hostile to unborn children, to marriage, to religious freedom, to free speech, to protecting our country than has ever existed in our history," she said in the three-minute script. "And never before is there such a need for an organization like CWA."

Wright says that within hours members began calling in asking what they could do.

[villager]

1. all of it, on the right, is projection. All of it.

n/t

[get the red out]

2. Resistance movement

Like the Taliban? Fitting. And resistance to what? The will of the people of this country as expressed at the ballot box?

Damn that democracy, it is just so unfriendly to Christo-fascists.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Huh

Where oh where do we get these nutbags. No one is against religion. Just where do they come up with this crap. The terror is in their own mine. Its so very funny. The country has moved to the center left. The crazies on the right just don't see it. If they want a future they better look to the moderates of their party because they will continue to lose and lose badly.

[Zenlitened]

4. I suggest they step right into the ocean.

Fish gotta eat, too.