Need more content on the ETHICAL and MORAL side of ALEC supporters and their agenda, as well as the ties with the evangelical right (which Perry is seeking to revive - pun intended). Weyrich of course was deeply involved with the radical religious right, as all the Kochs, the DeVos (Princes) and many of the other uber-wealthy.
Religion has positive and negative effects
Written by Al Dahler
Progressive Perspective
Staunton Virginia – NewsLeader.com
Sep 6, 2011
http://www.newsleader.com/article/20110906/OPINION02/109060303CLIPS:
(INTRO) Religion, as one of the most powerful cultural phenomenon, can and has served throughout history as a means to enhance the goodness of the human condition. Yet, it also can, has, and continues as a means to inflict evil, causing suffering and destruction.
Now, the progress toward achieving a just society is being attacked by Republican right-wing conservatives. The attack campaigns are well-financed by the super-rich and the corporate elite through such organizations as the American Legislative Exchange Council, a major sponsor of the tea party movement.
At the state level, ALEC concentrates on wrecking labor unions, public education, children's health care, public assistance programs, civil rights and is conducting a campaign to disenfranchise voters. At the state and federal levels, ALEC aims to obliterate all safety, food, health, financial and environmental regulations and safeguards while gutting the Medicaid program. At the federal level, ALEC's focus is to shrink Social Security and Medicare into oblivion and nullify health care legislation.
ALEC's foot soldiers are the social conservative masses and their religious allies who are frustrated and frightened by social progression, unable or unwilling to accept emerging cultural realities such as the changing demographics as America is becoming a multicultural nation of color. They yearn for the past marked by white male dominance and racial minority and female submissiveness. They especially resent the election of a black president whose administration they have pledged to destroy by any means possible.
One is the Republican vision financed by the plutocratic corporate elite, aiming to recreate America's Dark Ages of the 19th century. It is a vision of economic exploitation and enforced religious conformity.
The other vision is founded on Jefferson's liberal bargain, President Roosevelt's compassion for the dignity and worth of all peoples, and Dr. King's message of brother-and-sisterhood justice in the Judeo-Christian tradition of tolerance and acceptance working toward a truly equitable and humane society.
Great piece with some solid language, need more of this. Just about any major leader or founder within the ALEC fold has some weird religious philosophy mixed in.
CHECK OUT Robert Sirico (who's ties with Paul Weyrich go way back to the Council for National Policy days), by Mark and Louise Zwick in ""Economic Personalism" is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism":
http://www.cjd.org/paper/solution.html"Under the leadership of Father (SIC not ordained)
Robert Sirico, a center called the
Acton Institute has been founded to guide people in the way of this new theology. More recently, the Acton Institute has developed what they call a Center for "Economic Personalism." While Fr. Sirico may be well-intentioned in trying to do good as a priest, he comes down on the side of those only interested in personal gain and profit. When his groups emphasizes liberty and creativity for capitalists, what they are defending turns out to be liberty and creativity only for a few."
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