Star Dreck: Religious Right ‘Federation’ Clings On To Same Old Misguided Mission

From the national org:

...Several Religious Right organizations came together June 30 here in Washington to announce the formation of the “Freedom Federation” and to unveil a “Declaration of American Values,” a document reflecting the same obsessions that have animated the Religious Right for decades: opposition to abortion, opposition to gay rights, xenophobia, opposition to church-state separation, etc.

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Groups joining this effort include the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Liberty University, the Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, Vision America, Concerned Women for America, the American Family Association, Catholic Online, the Traditional Values Coalition and a host of lesser lights. The federation doesn’t plan to hire a staff or open and office, and it’s unclear what the next step will be. I have been unable to even find a Web site for this federation.

Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, who specializes in a daily dose of snark, seemed under whelmed. Dredging up the inevitable “Star Trek” comparison, Milbank seemed suspicious of the Federation’s claims that it is politically neutral.

“While ‘we have no allegiance as a federation to either party,’ as Blackwell put it, federation politics are no secret,” wrote Milbank. “Among the many others signed on to the federation are Gary Bauer’s Campaign for Working Families, which is at the moment working on a campaign to ‘stop Obama’s socialism’; Lafferty’s Traditional Values Coalition, which is trying to stop ‘Obamunists’ from destroying private health care; Exodus International, which promises ‘freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ’; Morning Star Ministries, which recently hosted the Spiritual Warfare Conference; and the American Family Association, which is promoting a boycott of Pepsi for supporting ‘homosexual activists.’”

In other words, despite the fancy name and all of the rhetoric, this really is your father’s Religious Right. Yawn. Nothing new here. ...


More at AU: http://blog.au.org/2009/07/06/star-dreck-religious-right-federation-clings-on-to-same-old-misguided-mission/