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4-9-09
 

Commentary: Reports of Our Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

 

In their haste to pronounce us dead, reporters routinely ignore the most profound grass-roots uprising of our era.'

Editor's note: This column first appeared today on WorldNetDaily.com.

With nearly every election cycle now come the somber reports in the news media of the death of the Religious Right. In the 20 years I've been in the movement, we have died four times.

Our first death was in 1988, following the failure of Pat Robertson to win his campaign for president. The second death was in the late '90s, following the demise in influence of the Christian Coalition. Another obituary was written in 2006 when the Republicans lost control of Congress.

And now, once again, we read of our death. This time the Angel of Doom was columnist Kathleen Parker who pronounced the last rites in a column that began this way: "Is the Christian Right finished as a political entity?" And for Parker, to ask the question was to answer it, in delicious expectation.

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