Vote Your Values: ; Republicans Have Empty Agenda of Simple Slogans

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I'M DRIVING alone in the car listening to one of those so-called Christian broadcast stations two years ago, just before the 2004 election. It's a talk show, a conversation between the radio host and a couple of enthusiastic spearheads for the religious right. Cheery voices. A sense of victory at hand. These are the sounds of the winning team in the weeks and days before the great Republican victory of 2004. Not just a victory for the Republicans. A victory for Jesus and God.

This is a new age. At long last, the Christians have gained the day, and these cheery voices are already jubilant in their certain knowledge of victory. Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart have guided their flocks into the fold of truly Christian government. These voices are telling the folks in radioland to "vote your values." Indeed. What values? Why the values of our sacred scriptures, that's what values. These members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes are dedicated to the preservation of the family, and the preservation of life. They are "pro-life" and "pro-family." What could be more Christian than that?

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Vote Your Values: ; Republicans Have Empty Agenda of Simple Slogans

Friends, that's all a big lie. The Republican Party is no friend of unborn babes. Nor is that party a friend of the family. Quite the contrary. Somehow Karl Rove and his buddies ...

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