I've been working on a longish post that I am not yet happy with.
In the meantime, I am going to post this, just to call
attention to somebody else's work. I guess it also adds a
little local flavor to this blog.
href="http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2006/06/interview_bob_o.html">Interview:
Bob O'Neal - 6/13/06
When you are talking about politics these days and say the word
“religious” it usually is followed by the word
“right.” Dr. Bob O’Neal, a
plastic surgeon in Ann Arbor, doesn’t like that. He
is a Christian who thinks his faith has been hijacked and distorted by
extremists, and has helped start a new group called IPPA, the
Interfaith Partnership for Political Action. Michigan
Radio’s Jack Lessenberry spoke with him.
The blurb above is a description of an interview on the
title="link to bio"
href="http://www.comm.wayne.edu/profiles.php?id=76" rel="tag">Jack
Lessenberry show, a talk show on Ann Arbor's NPR station,
WUOM. The Real Audio file can be opened by clicking
href="http://michiganradio.org/ram/jackiview20060613.m3u">here.
As he usually does, Mr. Lessenberry wrote a
href="http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2006/06/essay_religion_.html">short
essay inspired by the interview. In the essay, he
compares the way the Kennedy made use of religion in his political
life, and compares that to what the current Administration does.
Indeed, JFK had to spend a lot of time during the
campaign convincing the voters that his true loyalty would be to the
American people, not to the Pope. But things have changed. In his
spellbinding new book href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/books/review/19brink.html?ex=1300424400&en=b41804555786248d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">American
Theocracy [link added], former GOP strategist Kevin Phillips
argues that the Republicans have become America’s first truly
religious party -- and that this is a revolutionary and frightening
development.
The interview and the essay are short. Read/listen if it
sounds interesting.
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