1987: Biblical Checklist includes Support for Muslim Radicals in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
June 12, 1987, Friday, PM cycle
Religious Lobbyist Sees ''Christian-Bashing'' In GOP
A religious lobbyist says some Republicans, including Vice President George Bush, are engaging in "Christian-bashing" and may drive the religious right to form its own party.
Robert Grant, chairman of Christian Voice, criticized Bush for telling a joke about evangelist Oral Roberts. . .
Christian Voice is a lobbying group that issues a "Biblical Scorecard" on what it calls "the family-moral-freedom issues." They include not only abortion and school prayer, but also support for increased defense spending, "Star Wars," and aid to anti-communist insurgents in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere. . .
posted by Juan Cole @ 2/23/2008 10:01:00 AM
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Vice-President?
A Freudian slip, a wishful think?
Look at the date-- 1987.
cheers Juan
The Biblical Scorecard folks are not doing well at the moment. Consider how quickly Gov. Romney was forced to take back his Kulturkampf noises and rally around J. Sidney McCain.
Happy days.
Guess I'm the one doing the wishful thinking!
So what was the joke about Oral Roberts??
Scary people. Not only is their heavily armed fantasy Kingdom very much of This World. On top of that they want to implicate the supposed Prince of Peace in their dominionist nightmare.
Three decades back the great American writer-singer Phil Ochs crafted a magnificent line for these homeland heroes:
"They're whistling marches as they mow the lawn..."
RIP brother Phil, some of us remember...
DavidB
By way of self-correction, Phil Ochs wrote those words four, not three decades ago, as the trashing of Vietnam was answered in the Tet Offensive. The following year, 1969, he composed and recorded a song called "Another Age", the chorus of which begins: "Soldiers have their sorrow..." - surely something the grinning war-salvationists would never really understand.
DavidB (London)
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