Religious right sets Bush agenda, claims activist
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/12/01/news/world/ureligious1202.txt
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Cleveland Jewish News - Cleveland,OH,USA
The religious right is “flexing its muscles” and alienating religious
minorities as it extends its grip on secular government, contends Barry
Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and
State.
“They are extending their reach of vise-like control over the agenda of the
President,” claims Lynn, who was in Cleveland Nov. 21 to speak at the
annual meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section
Lynn, an ordained United Church of Christ minister as well as a member of
the Washington, D.C., Supreme Court bar, closely monitors issues in the
capital concerning church and state. He doesn’t like what he sees.
With Congress and the presidency Republican-controlled, “the House and
Senate are falling over each other trying to get these (issues) to clear,”
says Lynn.
If Judge Samuel Alito replaces Sandra Day O’Connor’s moderate vote on the
Supreme Court, it could become even easier for the religious right to get
its agenda through, he predicts.
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