Agree or disagree with this statement

[YoungDemCA]

"The things that threaten American families and communities are not the issues commonly brought up by the Religious Right (homosexuality, secularization, abortion). Rather, they are the consequences of right-wing economic policies-policies that many Religious Right leaders and activists benefit from."

-Source: Me

[PDJane]

1. Yes.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Agree.

[asjr]

3. Yes.

[PowerToThePeople]

4. agree

[Tikki]

5. I wish I could make the statement into a bumper sticker...

You are so on the mark and simply stated.



Tikki

[RebelOne]

6. Agree. n/t

[nichomachus]

7. Back in the '80s

I worked in a Fortune 500 company. One of the guys in the office was fond of saying that we didn't need to worry about the USSR. If anything was going to destroy the US, he said, it was going to be the Harvard Business School. Boy, was he right.

[freshwest]

8. Agree, with this addition:

To Washington Post Letters:

Steven F. Hayward wrote: “The single largest defect of modern conservatism, in my mind, is its insufficient ability to challenge liberalism at the intellectual level...”

No.

The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation.

Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.

Conservatives are not “thinkers”; they are rationalizers who give an intellectual gloss to their belief that an alliance of predatory businesspeople and religious extremists should rule the rest of us.

The wreckage caused by modern conservatism lies all around us, and speaks for itself: If conservatism isn’t dead, it should be.

DANIEL ROSEN
Baltimore

Source: Washington Post 10/9/2009

[HopeHoops]

9. Agree

[liberal_at_heart]

10. Even homosexuality and abortion can affect the economy

Access to birth control is an economic policy. So is abortion for that matter. Having the freedom to plan a family has an enormous impact on not just women but the entire family and the entire economy. Having the freedom to marry if you are gay is also an economic issue; taxes, inheritance, etc.

[SoapBox]

11. Agree.