Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Beginnings of a Backlash?
The religious right should remember that the separation of church and state was originally intended to protect the church, not the state:
“There is a lot of discontent brewing,” said Brian D. McLaren, the founding pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Gaithersburg, Md., and a leader in the evangelical movement known as the “emerging church,” which is at the forefront of challenging the more politicized evangelical establishment.

“More and more people are saying this has gone too far — the dominance of the evangelical identity by the religious right,” Mr. McLaren said. “You cannot say the word ‘Jesus’ in 2006 without having an awful lot of baggage going along with it. You can’t say the word ‘Christian,’ and you certainly can’t say the word ‘evangelical’ without it now raising connotations and a certain cringe factor in people.

“Because people think, ‘Oh no, what is going to come next is homosexual bashing, or pro-war rhetoric, or complaining about ‘activist judges.’ ”
Perhaps it's time for the American Taliban nutbars to go back to their fringe status before groups like the ACLU have to come to their defense.
Written at 2:19 PM by Greyhair.
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