From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat
Date: 19 Nov 92 05:45:05 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

dejst5+@pitt.edu (David   E Joslin) writes:
-jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle ) writes:
->I am an Episcopalian, am I a member of the religious right?  Is everyone
->who has a religion a member of the relgious right?
->At times, it seems so.
-
-Several people have said this and I just don't understand it.  What
-have you seen to make you think that "Religious Right" is used to refer
-to everyone who is religious?  I only hear it being used to refer to
-that group epitomized by Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan who think that
-their personal values should be imposed on everyone in the country.

Southern Baptists sometimes are perceived that way. In fact, in a lot of
cases, just plain Christians are perceived thusly. Anyone who calls for
a return of morals and a values system in American society is labeled a
member of the "Religious Right." More often than not the religion
specifically targeted is Christianity or "Judeo-Christian" heritage.
Sinead O'Connor wouldn't be caught doing concerts anymore if she had
torn a picture of the late Ayatollah Khomeni on Saturday Night Live
instead of the Pope. Many liberals are defending her actions
nevertheless while those who are either very religious or conscious of
other religions who criticize her are grouped into the "Religious
Right."

-To condemn an entire group for the sins of its extremists is bigotry.
-Pat Robertson does not define Christianity any more than Florence
-Kennedy defines feminism (or any more than Marx and Lenin define
-American liberalism. :-)   If anyone is equating all religious people
-with the extremists of the Religious Right, they are sinking to the
-level of Rush Limbaugh.  If I hear them doing it, I will criticize them
-just as loudly as I criticize Rush.
-
-One final question.  If you object to all religious people being
-lumped together with the Religious Right, will you object when Rush
-uses the same tactic to stereotype and condemn some other group?

I do when it's inappropriate to lump all people into convienient
stereotypes. Reference to an article that was posted a few days ago
about Rush's lack of understanding discrimination because he displays
the thoughts of a typical white male.

You cannot expect one person to define a movement unless he/she is the
founder or the leader of that movement. Media pictures of feminists show
Pat Ireland, Ellie Smeal, Gloria Steinem, and Pat Schroeder. It is wrong
to think all women who consider themselves feminists think along the
same lines as they do, but they are the ones who are referred to as the
"experts." Likewise with the evangelists, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell,
Robert Schueler, and Jimmy Swaggert don't typify all Christians, but
they are perceived as the preeminent Christian leaders nevertheless. I
fight making assumptions based on false appearances and images everyday.
I don't recall Rush ever condemning a group of activists, just
ridiculing them. He tries to be very careful, particularly in the
differences between a "feminist" and a "feminazi" are to him, but
nevertheless, everyone goes ahead and assumes that he is a misogynist
because he dares to criticize the feminist leadership.

I don't mind the labels that could be put on me from "Religious
Fundamentalist" to "Limbot." I am not going to be offended with these
names; heck, I sometimes am pretty amused. But labelling me as a
Republinazi (as opposed to the "tamer" Democlone or Republiclone)
frankly is offensive. That didn't happen specifically to me, but many
posts during the last few weeks basically had a few people describe
anyone who supported Bush as this.

-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck	eyc@acpub.duke.edu	Biomedical Engineering 1993
	THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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