Wednesday, January 16, 2002
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
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Will people believe lie about religious right? Correspondent Stuart Shepard writes that a political attack is being prepared against the "religious right" for the upcoming election. What is the battle plan? It is to try and make the public identify the very strongly conservative religious right with the brutally cruel restrictions and abusive laws of the Taliban. Will you believe it? According to Mr. Shepard the argument will be made many times over that the American "religious right" is no different than the Taliban. Is it too outrageous for anyone to believe? If you don't believe that something so ridiculous would ever be believed then you have never read any history. Such outrageous lies have been told and retold of various groups throughout history and have been believed. Christians burned Rome. Jews are inferior to the Arian race. Blacks are subhuman. Remember any of those lies? Repeat a lie often enough, get it printed enough, intimidate people out of speaking out against the lie and it will eventually gain acceptance even if not belief. Reporter Howard Fineman recently wrote in Newsweek that the plan is to paint the religious right as the "American Taliban." Will it work? I don't believe it will. Call me naive. Call me optimistic. But I believe that there are more Americans with their political and ideological eyes open today than their were on Sept. 10. I still believe that even many who will disagree with the religious right will stand up and declare that comparison to be a lie. Whatever one's moral viewpoint, political persuasion or one's values, we must not allow ourselves to become a party to the propagation of a lie. Larry Spencer Legislative representative Georgia Association of Christian Schools
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