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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1461@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:40:31 GMT
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- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- : >>What phrase would you want them to use for the "religious right"?
- : >>"Religious" alone is clearly too broad; believe it or not, there are
- : >>some *liberals* who are deeply religious, too. The real problem with
- :
- : >no flames please - I am just providing factual information:
- :
- : Not a flame, but an observation... When the US Catholic bishops a couple days
- : ago decided to shelve a declaration on the Church's position on women's issues,
- : the media reported it, then immediately interviewed feminists who want female
- : priests. The media passed up a golden opportunity to lable these dissenters
- : as "the religious left," but instead passed with the impression that these
- : dissenters represent an overwhelming majority of American Catholics... and they
- : represent, of course, nothing of the sort.
- :
- : Dave
-
- I dunno, I've never seen any polling data on this- but I'd imagine
- that a majority of the American people (perhaps a slim one)
- would feel that keeping women out of the priesthood was rather
- silly.
-
- Bill
-