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...Barry Goldwater came out in favor of lifting the ban on gays in the military -- on the exquisitely conservative grounds that sexuality was none of the government's business. The tongue-clucking from the right was deafening. Gary Bauer, the president of the Family Research Council and now a kingmaker of the GOP's religious right, lamented publicly that "it's sad ? Sen. Goldwater was once the authentic voice of American conservatism." Ah, but Goldwater didn't change his stripes, the GOP did. Bauer is the "authentic voice" of something else entirely: a radical faction that is fast taking over...
...Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, and another recent ARCO speaker, went further, demanding Clinton fire Blumenthal...
...would not allow a presidential aide to so slander the beliefs of Catholics or Jews," Bauer wrote in a letter to the president. "We would not permit racially insensitive remarks. It must be no different when the targets of bigotry are evangelical Christians...
...flippity-flop" to mean hanging around, and said "harsh realm" rather than "bummer." I was forced to admit publicly that if I hadn't happened to read the Baffler just before a trip to Seattle, which was sure to include some browsing at the mother church of Eddie Bauer, I might well have replied to a floor walker who asked if I needed any help, "Thanks, but I'm just swingin' on the flippity-flop...
...good that Gary Bauer was challenged for his hypocrisy. He's willing to take on China's human rights abuses, but promotes the idea that gay people should be treated as second or third-class citizens. Bauer supports the use of lies and deception to get what he wants, despite the legitimacy of what that want is. With the country's present state, do we really want to elect another president who will use any and all forms of deception to reach personal goals? GARY RIMAR Romeo, Mich., April...