The Christian Conservative Steamroller

Coming to roll over you any day now... but wait according to such unbiased (against conservatives and liberals, according to their editorial policy) news champions such as USA Today, conservatives want to play nice and work with liberals when their conservative religious agenda coincides with liberal activism. Hey if Gary Bauer says that conservatives want to play nice then that must be so. They would never lie to advance their agenda or help hide what they are really all about, right? Lying is not a Christian value. Boy, with friends like these...


We control Republican senators. You doubt our power?
Do You??? Just watch me turn on the Christian Charisma!

Evangelicals have broadened their perspective and widened their agenda," says John Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron and co-author of The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics. "It's not as if the social issues have vanished; they still care about them. But foreign policy issues, environmental issues, even social welfare issues have joined the agenda. That has led them to develop broader alliances in some really odd ways."

"Conservative Christians will continue to fight hard on the life issue and the definition of marriage," says Gary Bauer, head of an advocacy group called American Values and a GOP presidential contender in 2000. "But there is a willingness on another day to make common cause with liberals."