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...daughter of a renowned pastor, Shelton, 47, was encouraged by a professor to preach at one of the S.B.C.'s seminaries before its hard rightward turn starting in 1979. After long stints in such typical "women's jobs" as education minister and associate pastor, she had a difficult conversation with God in 1999. "I'd been in the ministry for about 20 years, and I still didn't have a pulpit," says the mother of two sons. "I expressed to the Lord that I was going to retire early and let another generation be called." But the following year, Covenant...
...President, Roosevelt pursued a bellicose foreign policy but an increasingly liberal policy at home, one less beholden to business interests and friendlier to workers and the environment than the conservative wing of his party would have liked. After he left the White House, he was increasingly disappointed by the rightward drift of his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Before Taft's first term was up, Roosevelt was ready to challenge him for the G.O.P. nomination...
...Thanksgiving table is arguably the biggest buffet of exoneration for the fundamentalists trying to enshrine discrimination in our Constitution and push the social discourse ever rightward. This past summer, I worked in the State House as a legislative intern. At one intern forum, I asked Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan, about equal rights in the state, and he too went off on some tangent about the fourth Thursday in November. Apparently, self-congratulation and the coveted moral high ground come ready-made with the stuffing and string bean casserole. If you give some polite face time...
...inklings of dread for a while now. Back in May, a New York Times Magazine article, “Armies of the Right: The Young Hipublicans,” highlighted the growing numbers of campus conservatives, citing polls that show a decided rightward tilt in the political views of college freshmen. According to the article, in 1995, 66 percent of college students believed the rich should be taxed at a higher rate. Only 50 percent believed the same in 2002. Most of the 16 percent that changed their minds ended up in my blocking group...
...reason may be that some of the GOP?s savviest inside players angled hard to stave off the suspension. Conservatives like Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, sent out news releases stating that his group ?Condemns the Attacks on MCI.? Norquist, the leader of a group of rightward thinking activists who meet regularly (sometimes with White House staffers), wrote to at least one senator who was bearing down on MCI and contacted the General Services Administration, the agency that administers federal phone contracts, to plug for the company. Norquist, who blames labor unions and other telecom industry competitors...