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Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Apr 8 (IPS) - In all the hullabaloo raised by the cable
news coverage of the Terri Schiavo case and the so-called miracle of Ashley
Smith, a Georgia woman freed by her kidnapper after she read him passages from
a bestselling Christian self-help book, few are talking about the elephant in
the room -- the Christian right's vision of cultural transformation in the
United States.
From supporting the embattled Alabama Judge Roy Moore's right to display a
5,000-pound monument to the Ten Commandments in a state courthouse, to
collecting signatures on petitions to keep alive Terri Schiavo (a Florida woman
whose feeding tubes were disconnected in March after she had been in a
persistent vegetative state for 15 years), Dr. D. James Kennedy is making his
voice heard loud and often these days.
The senior minister of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
and the president of Coral Ridge Ministries (CRM), Kennedy has also campaigned
for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and advocates teaching
creationism in the public schools.
Beneath the radar of the mainstream media, Kennedy has spent the past three
decades building a ministerial and media empire that is now packing a powerful
political punch in Washington.
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Read it at http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28218
J. Spaceman
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