Reply #7: Excellent points.

[CBHagman]

By the way, you'd get the impression from today's politicians that the Bible was 33 percent about condemning homosexuality, 33 percent about abortion, and 33 percent about ensuring that the wealthiest obtain even more wealth. At least that's the way the Christian Coalition and their ilk seem to act.

The reality is that in the four Gospels Jesus makes no mention of homosexuality, though the topic is covered in a couple of espistles (attributable to disciples) and in the Old Testament.

Abortion is not mentioned in the Bible.

As for the topic of the wealthiest, there is a lot in the Scriptures to make the current religious right in this country very, very uncomfortable. I exempt people like Gary Bauer, who do mention issues of social justice and the poor.

At any rate, I think that progressives are the hard-nosed pragmatists, not today's religious right. The current administration recites a mantra of completely fallacious notions and gets away with it, for the most part, because what they say sounds good to those who believe in the strict father model.