jsoko@hotmail.com (John Dylan) says

Could anyone direct me to a website where I might find a list of
proposed (or successful) legislation (federal or state (any)) that has
been initiated by the christian right. I'm looking for something
which does a nice job of summarizing the influence of christians on
the political system.

Thanks
John

As a start, take a look at the website of the American Family Association.
They love to crow.

For example, they specialize in "model" laws designed to prevent the "blight"
of nudity (which they equate to pornography and obscentiy) complete with case
studies and reams of stats that purport to prove that a bar with topfree or
nude dancers creates havoc in a community.

What they don't mention is that their model laws are weasel worded to prohibit
all sorts of other stuff too. "Nude dancing" is defined in a way that
prohibits two adults, married to each other, from waltzing or jitterbugging
with each other nude at a nudist resort. Prohibition of liquor applies to
those same adults at those same resorts. And, of course, children must be kept
away from the horrors of nudity -- so parents can't bring their own kids to the
private resort they're members of.

Their usual approach is to find a fundy (or abysmally naive) city/county
attorney who they prime to bamboozle the city/county council into adopting such
a law to prevent said city/county from going to hell in a handbasket. It's all
done behind the scenes until, one day, WHAMMO!

In the mid-90s they set a goal of 1000 such anti-nudity laws by the year 2000.
They came nowhere close, but did do a lot of damage.

Go to

http://www.afa.net/

When you've looked that over, go to the bottom right and click on Center for
Law and Policy. Read every word of the multiple pages under CLP.

:-)

Jenny

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