Since the Eighties we've heard dire warnings in from the political pundits and mainstream media and the Democratic Party (but I repeat myself... ba, dump, bump! Thank you, I'll be here all week; Try the veal!) of the rise of the Christian or religious right in politics. According to this theme, a bloc of conservative, narrow, and prejudiced Republican voters would gather all their political power to back candidates amenable to their way of thinking forcing the GOP to become a hardline reactionary party and forcing out moderates who disagreed on issues like abortion, homosexuality, and the like, and creating a virtual theocracy. Of course, as well know, nothing of the sort has happened, despite shrill claims that the uproar over Janet Jackson's bare breast at the Super Bowl halftime show is a sign of that incipient jackboot revolution.
Meanwhile, we're seeing the rise of a counter-force in politics, a mirror movement on the left of well-heeled homosexual activists targeting local political races around the country with political donations to tilt local governments in favor of their left-wing political views, mostly related to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. It's the same strategy--based on former Democrat House Speaker Tip O'Neill's adage that all politics is local--that the Christian Coalition used to encourage it's members to focus on culture-changing institutions like school boards and city councils.
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You have identified a problem that has not just appeared among us but one that has been growing steadily for the past forty years. While journalists make regular reference to an Old Boys network, occasionally reference conspiratorial Masonry, routinely intimate a shadowy, powerful, network in Opus Dei, and always try to spin coincidence into conspiracy when it suits them, the Old Queens Network, one of the wealthiest and most relentless of all, has generally gone unnoticed.
That network is ubiquitous in academic life; I’ve seen it on nearly every hiring committee on which I’ve served since the late 1970s, and it is no surprise that the same organization and aggressiveness is being brought to the political stage. No issue is too small, no prize too inconsequential, and no holds are barred.
Some folks may recall the “neighbourhood” organization that made life so difficult for the hapless protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s wonderful film “After Hours” from 1985. It was amusing then.
There’s a sickness in this society that has its roots in the so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s—a revolution that is in itself morally revolting. This sickness is as dangerous as any contagious disease, and as potentially violent any external threat to the well-being of our country. We may be approaching a time when words alone will not hold back the force of this evil as it mutates into other revolting aspects including polygamy and bestiality to name just the lesser of the approaching evils.
Our recourse is our faith in Christ and in His gifts of fortitude and love needed to combat a potential nightmare that is now being funded by those who promote sexual acts that are indeed perverse harbingers of that “brave new world” of the living dead.
“That network is ubiquitous in academic life; I’ve seen it on nearly every hiring committee on which I’ve served since the late 1970s, and it is no surprise that the same organization and aggressiveness is being brought to the political stage. No issue is too small, no prize too inconsequential, and no holds are barred.”
Aren’t we seeing this in corporations now too?
Now it makes since why all the democratic candidates in the 5th Congression Distirct (Meehan jus has stepped down) have all qucikly in their initial statements have talked about protecting gay rights and equal marriage.
Even when bringing up the subject of the homosexual network within the Church, there are those who basically dismiss it.
Go figure.
As far as the Democrats’ characterizations of the Religious Right—they go far past the eighties. The Democrats did that when the Republican Party was founded in the 1850s. It was the “Religious Right” of the 1850s that fought slavery, passed the anti-abortion laws _Roe_ later overturned, led the teetotaler movement, etc., and the Democrats appealed to voters by crying “Theocracy.”