Daily Poll: Does the Christian Right Ignore Important Christian Values?
Perhaps the most important catch-phrase of the Christian Right is ‘family values’ and a significant amount of their political, social, and cultural agenda is predicated on the defense of ‘family values.’ One of the problems with this is that the Christian Right has a very narrow conception of what qualifies as a threat to ‘family values.’ It’s almost all about sex, never money or materialism. Daily Poll: Is the Christian Right ignoring important Christian values by ignoring problems connected to greed, materialism, and poverty? • Definitely – there are reasons why those issues were emphasized in the past. • Perhaps a little, but they aren’t as important as gay marriage and pornography. •
