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Sure looks like it! Does anyone else think the very idea of this group calling themselves "The Mainstream Coalition" is completely laughable?
BTW, here's a link to the original article.
Update: MCJ has more on this same subject.
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>>Intimidation campaign from Right Left Whatever
Susan b. Lilac Rose points me to this news story in the Washington Post, describing how a liberal religious[,lack of] group, The Mainstream Coalition is visiting evangelical and fundamentalist churches to monitor their political activity. Tina Kohn, a ... [Read More]
Tracked on July 28, 2004 11:53 AM
Hi Joel,
What gets me about the religious left is this...They whine about the "political church", and they act as if they are somehow above politics. However, it's not politics they find so distasteful, but conservative politics. They don't mind their own kind of politics being brought into the church. They are just as guilty of "baptizing" their political views as being "what God really wants" as some right-wingers are.
So true, and the inconsistency of it all was the reason I became dissatisfied with the UUA - the politics eventually led me to leave.
As a former Unitarian Universalist, I encountered lots of anti-religious right sentiment, including this type of "search-and-destroy" mission to confront conservative churches with their voter registration drives, discussion of moral issues, and so on.
It all gave me a weird feeling however, when I realized that all the techniques employed by the religious right are also employed by the religious left, as represented in your post by "The Mainstream Coalition". The UUA is co-sponsoring a movement called "Faithful Democracy" where they are encouraging religious liberals to become involved in politics (by voting Democrat of course). Of course, the Catholics and the Southern Baptists cannot be allowed to do the same thing. So the bottom line is that they want their influence to be felt in Washington, but they want to censor their opponents.