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- From: dejst5+@pitt.edu (David E Joslin)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat
- Message-ID: <9889@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 04:10:21 GMT
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- jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle ) writes:
- >I am an Episcopalian, am I a member of the religious right? Is everyone
- >who has a religion a member of the relgious right?
- >At times, it seems so.
-
- Several people have said this and I just don't understand it. What
- have you seen to make you think that "Religious Right" is used to refer
- to everyone who is religious? I only hear it being used to refer to
- that group epitomized by Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan who think that
- their personal values should be imposed on everyone in the country.
-
- To condemn an entire group for the sins of its extremists is bigotry.
- Pat Robertson does not define Christianity any more than Florence
- Kennedy defines feminism (or any more than Marx and Lenin define
- American liberalism. :-) If anyone is equating all religious people
- with the extremists of the Religious Right, they are sinking to the
- level of Rush Limbaugh. If I hear them doing it, I will criticize them
- just as loudly as I criticize Rush.
-
- One final question. If you object to all religious people being
- lumped together with the Religious Right, will you object when Rush
- uses the same tactic to stereotype and condemn some other group?
-
- David
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