Just how large is the religious right?

I keep seeing the number two million thrown around. I have seen seven million, also.

Are the two million registered voters only?

The way I see it, there are more of us. We can drown out their message, and we can outvote them.

There were 1.15 million people at the March for Women's Lives. There are several mainstream religious denominations with 20 million or more members who despise the agenda of the religious right.

The culture wars stuff is just bullshit, promoted by the media.

evangelical Christians.

If so, then the next question is "how many of them vote?"

Then the next question is "would they vote for * because of his religious statements?"

I am one of those.

Evangelical means basing one's faith on the Gospels, and a belief in salvation through grace and not through the sacraments and good works alone.

Most mainstream Christians call themselves evangelicals. I meant the fundy wingnuts.

the question "are you evangelical" is speciaus since, at a base level, all Christians are evangelical. But only a few are of the fundy idiot-stupid American-style conservative hate-filled evangelical brand of Christianity.

I should think the initial post saying 2 million is about right for the religious right. The problem is that the religious right is very vocal, and has a FAR higher percentage of politically active people than the mainstream of Christianity, plus they tend to be very overboard with their crap and so get a lot of media attention. Whereas churches doing incredible amounts of social reform and political activism, like the United Church of Christ and the Unitarians and the Quakers, are pretty much forever ignored because they aren't filled with hate ("God Hates Fags!" is a great way to get media attention; saying "gays are welcome in our church, we don't really ask or care about it much" is not interesting to the media). So the fundy hate-filled dangerous people number far less than the sane, normal, decent Jesus-following people, but the evil fundy side is WAY WAY WAY more active and vocal, so they SEEM to be everywhere and to represent a HUGE amount of America.

in that letter, I emphasized the numbers and names of the churches who supported and sponsored the March.

The LTTE was supposed to be a guest column originally, but our new editor got cold feet. (That is another whole story).

I wrote a little bit about some of the ministers I heard speak at the rally, too.

I am sure my LTTE will get feedback from the fundies. Then, I will have a chance to respond and expand on how real Christians behave. I am planning on quoting Jimmy Carter, in an interview he did for American Prospect. He was our first evangelical President, and he says the Christian right is not Christian.

I live in a small town, and people know how to find me. I will get my share of anonymous hate mail. But it is worth it.

Thank you for standing up to the religious right!

living in NYC that's something I just don't get to do, since the religious right has no part of anything of value in this city (thank God!). But outide NYC, it's very important that people fight against the crap of the religious right.

As Jimmy Carter said - and man, I love that man - the Christian Right is not Christian.

of, relating to, or in agreement with the Christian gospel esp. as it is presented in the four Gospels 2: PROTESTANT 3: emphasizing salvation through personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of preaching as contrasted with ritual 4 a cap: of or relating to the Evangeical Church in Germany b often cap: FUNDAMENTALIST c often cap: Low Church 5: EVANGELISTIC, ZEALOUS

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