Without defining them, Wash. Post asserted Brownback "talk[ed] about Christian values"

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710210002?f=h_latest

In an October 20 article, Washington Post staff writer Michael D. Shear wrote that Sen. Sam Brownback's (KS) departure from the Republican presidential race "was a disappointment to many" at the Family Research Council-organized "Values Voter Summit," adding, "Brownback had spent much of his campaign talking about Christian values and stressing his stance against abortion." But Shear did not explain what the term "Christian values" meant or how it related to Brownback's campaign. Indeed, other candidates -- Republican or Democrat -- might define "Christian values" differently than Brownback does.

In a December 14, 2005, article, Post staff writers Jonathan Weisman and Alan Cooperman noted that there are differences within the Christian faith as to what "Christian values" translate into in terms of political advocacy:

When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them.

That is a great relief to Republican leaders, who have dismissed the burgeoning protests as the work of liberals. But it raises the question: Why in recent years have conservative Christians asserted their influence on efforts to relieve Third World debt, AIDS in Africa, strife in Sudan and international sex trafficking -- but remained on the sidelines while liberal Christians protest domestic spending cuts?

Conservative Christian groups such as Focus on the Family say it is a matter of priorities, and their priorities are abortion, same-sex marriage and seating judges who will back their position against those practices.

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1. Ah, yes, the three things Christ spoke of most often.

Abortion, same sex marriage and seating judges that will prevent them. I heard CINO Gingrich last night fooling around with statistics so that he could claim 70% of the country agrees with him and that "secular elites" are confused about American history. It seemed to be an event produced by Focus on the Fascism.

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2. It's codespeak.

Those who it is intended for know exactly what the term means.


IOW - It's throwing red meat to Pavlov's Dopes.


Marc Maron called them the "Christo-fascist Zombie Brigade".

Quite an accurate description, I'd say... :)