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Culture wars - Moral majority politics comes to Great Britain (Bush Victory Infectious!)
New Statesman ^ | November 15, 2004 | Cristina Odone

Posted on 11/12/2004 1:46:18 PM PST by NYer

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To: dead
What the hell, they’re all “religious.”

I pick that up to by the end of the 2nd paragraph and quit reading.

21 posted on 11/12/2004 3:49:15 PM PST by usurper (Correct spelling is overrated)
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To: NYer
Its success...has kept the coffers filled and the propaganda machine churning.

Nice objective article.

22 posted on 11/12/2004 3:58:46 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: NYer

If Miss Odone thinks that Thomas Frank is a prescient writer, she has a lot of problems. Frank is the sociologist or something who couldn't understand why Kansans keep voting for Republicans. Apparently Miss Odone doesn't get it either. It's highly amusing to hear liberals on one hand call conservatives greedy, rapacious despoilers of the earth and then on the other call them obsessed with religion which values morality over filthy lucre. Well libs, which one is it?


23 posted on 11/12/2004 4:08:14 PM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Soul Seeker

"He is one man standing up to prevent his entire country from being destroyed over terrorism under tremendous opposition from all corners."

Abortion alone has murdered more Britons than will ever be killed by terrorists. Making war on terror is easy - it allows morally defective politicians to salve the bad consciences that result from their complicity in the genocide that goes on under our noses.

"If you choose to ignore the good done by this man, that is your choice."

Good? What is good? - killing people?

"I will take the opposite view, thank you."

That is your prerogative under the current relativist zeitgeist - the "right" to be wrong.


24 posted on 11/12/2004 4:35:40 PM PST by Tantumergo
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To: Tantumergo

I see.

My assessment of G.W. AND Blair stands.


25 posted on 11/12/2004 5:34:28 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: Jaysun

The Liberals' grouping of muslim fanatics with Christian morality-based politics is proof 'they dont get it'.

But it is fascinating that as usual, America leads the way.


26 posted on 11/12/2004 6:44:28 PM PST by WOSG (Liberate Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
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To: Soul Seeker

Well said. I agree with you.

Three cheers for PM Tony Blair and GWB, 2 men of morals, faith and courage.

I do hope the moral uprising that swept America will also sweep Great Britain and the whole of Europe. Well, I can at least hope for Great Britain...


27 posted on 11/12/2004 6:57:49 PM PST by Donna Lee Nardo
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This article is the first mention I've heard of Tony Blair being overtly religious. Interesting.


28 posted on 11/12/2004 9:15:25 PM PST by Ciexyz (Bush still rules. The sun shines over America.)
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To: Jaysun

Yes, I am nervous about the Muslims being included, too. Conservative, perhaps they are. "Demanding new rights" makes me VERY wary. Pagans have separate and mutually-exclusive goals all their own.


29 posted on 11/13/2004 7:45:49 AM PST by bboop
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I think Rocco Buttiglione is a right and honorable man. I would also note that here in England the Catholic churchs generally are full every Sunday (and I'm in Brighton!) but the Anglican churchs (went to a few before I cottoned on that they were Anglican-Catholic!) tend to be empty or filled with only over 70s -- no young Anglicans in the churchs


30 posted on 11/14/2004 6:28:13 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4)
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To: MadIvan

Look how the MSM are lumping together Evangelical Christians and Muslims in Britain.


34 posted on 02/21/2005 8:06:31 AM PST by montag813
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Yes, but this is the New Statesman. It's our equivalent to "The Nation".

Regards, Ivan


35 posted on 02/21/2005 8:08:42 AM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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Yes, but this is the New Statesman. It's our equivalent to "The Nation".

Ugh. There ought to have been a "Barf Alert" then.

36 posted on 02/21/2005 8:27:13 AM PST by montag813
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