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Thank You, John McCain
Comments from Left Field —
... Alan Wolfe trains his attention on that Christian right whose votes McCain wants to buy with Sarah Palin’s virulent anti-choice stance (anti-choice for other women, of course, not for her own daughter). What, Wolfe asks, does Bristol Palin’s baby tell us about that Christian right? ...
Liberals, Palin, And Quail (Not Quayle)
Discriminations —
... I was reminded of these “stupid” Mexican quail, and how they violated all the rules about how quail are supposed to behave, by the frustrated, angry response of our cultural betters to Sarah Palin’s nomination, and especially to her conservative Christian supporters. Listen, for example, to Alan Wolfe (actually an old friend, and an impressive scholar of American religion and politics), writing on a New Republic blog: ...
A Thought Experiment
Ross Douthat —
... Of course not. If anything remotely like this had happened, all we'd hear is satisfied chirping about how the response to Bristol Palin's pregnancy proves, once and for all, that social conservatives don't give two figs about the rights of the unborn; what they really care about is controlling women's sex lives and reinforcing patriarchal norms, full stop. Hence the weird anger emanating from social liberals at the religious right's failure to tar and feather the Palins and run them out of GOP politics on a rail: They're mad that religious conservatives aren't fitting ...
Jabbing conservative hypocrisy on Bristol Palin
Betsy's Page —
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Jabbing conservative hypocrisy on Bristol Palin Liberals have been frothing about the supposed hypocrisy of social conservatives who have failed to denounce Bristol Palin and her mother for the 17-year old's pregnancy. There are lots of references to social conservatives throwing their beliefs overboard just to support the Republican ticket. Alan Wolfe exemplified these sorts of criticisms in his blog at The New Republic. In rushing to Sarah Palin's defense, the leaders of the Christian right have made it abundantly clear how they define a Christian. ...
