I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
America should function as a Christian nation.
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.