Actually, Weyrich said in a follow up article that he did not mean Christian conservatives should drop out of politics, just that they needed to set up parallel institutions because secular society was going to collapse and that was how Christian conservatives would finally take over.
The Christian Coalition has faded, but there are hundreds of other national and state Christian Right insititutions.
Ralph Reed, formerly of CC, is now head of the Republican Party in Georgia. Repubs did very well in GA. Christian conseratives have been the largest single voting bloc in the Republican Party since 1980. Stats from last weeks election will take a while to process, then we can see what percentages the Christian conseratives turn out in terms of overall voters and voters that vote Republican.
I don't think there will be dramatic changes. The Christian Right is not going away.
-Chip Berlet
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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of s-t-t at juno.com
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> Subject: Big question for Chip (was Re: Fw: Nosedive: ...)
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>
> Doug wrote:
> > Weyrich said that the impeachment resolution convinced him that
> > there wasn't a moral majority after all, and his kind should just
> > secede from the larger society as much as possible. I don't
> know what
> > that gang is saying now.
>
> What is the current state of the theocratic right in the US?
> The CC has
> basically collapsed, correct?
>
> -- Shane
>
>
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