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The Religious-People-Are-Crazy Landmine
31 August 2005Jason Carter: “Strategizing a Christian Coup d’Etat” by The L.A. Times’ Jenny Jarvie sheds light on an ambitious movement undertaken by a group called Christian Exodus to gain enough seats in the South Carolina legislature to regain conservative ground on issues including abortion and prayer in schools. Jarvie gracefully side-steps the religious-people-are-crazy landmine by reporting the differing views within the Christian right, but she does miss an opportunity to delve more deeply into the separation of church and state. CE’s apparent violation of the doctrine could have been balanced by reporting the group’s frustration with federal laws that restrict Christian practices and arguably violate the First Amendment.
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