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Baldwin Wants Out of the Millennial Kingdom
21 December 2004"Are we heading for a modern day religious inquisition, this one led not by the Catholic Church but by the Religious Right?" Who wants to know? Baptist Senior Pastor Chuck Baldwin, who, with his four fundamentalist Christian degrees, his record of service in the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, the anti-abortion movement, the pro-Ten Commandments movement, the NRA and the election campaigns of several conservative politicians, could safely be called a member of the Religious Right. Yet Baldwin's feeling far from at home as he sees his movement become a hollow one "without a cause, except the cause of advancing the Republican Party." One which has sacrificed its principles "in order to sit at the king's table." Among Baldwin's top complaints: the Religious Right put up no resistance to the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the national I.D. card, and what he finds most troubling: the RR's "Christianizing" the politicians it supports, while demonizing the rest. "I used to believe that liberals were paranoid for being fearful of conservative Christians gaining political power. Now, I share their trepidation..."
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