Saturday, August 11, 2007

Is the Christian right withering?
It's never going to be irrelevant, there's just too many religious conservatives in the United States David Rayside, U of T politics professor CNN documentary on fundamentalists suggests a sea change in American politics

Aug 11, 2007
Stuart Laidlaw
faith and ethics reporter

Jennifer and Mike Nevarr live a comfortable life in Virginia, where he runs a landscaping business and preaches in a local church. Jennifer stays home to take care of their five children in their two-storey suburban house. By all accounts, they have a good life.

But they worry about the world their children will inherit, and a society they believe has lost touch with its values and needs more religion to get it back on track. That's why Jennifer stays home. She's there to home school all her children, teaching them history, Bible stories and math.

"We study math because God created math and God loves math," she says in a CNN documentary to be broadcast this month.

Two weeks before it airs, the series is already coming under scrutiny from the U.S. Christian right.
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