Reply #8: Great stuff there

[MountainLaurel]

And I think you're dead on. I was pondering this issue the other day and realized that most liberals' exposure to the religious reich is seeing quotes from Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the TV news. They see Robertson making comments about the evils and feminism and think "What a loon." That sort of knowledge is a far cry from that of liberals who, say, grew up in Lynchburg (Falwell's theocratic kingdom) and know precisely what these people are capable of, how they seized control and how they rule their dominions afterward, what their ultimate goals are, and what happens to people who oppose them. This latter group does not pooh-pooh the fundamentalists or laugh at their seemingly crazy antics: They fear them, as they should.