Over a Year in the Life of President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative
It may seem like several lifetimes ago, but it was only on January 29, 2001, when President Bush unveiled a cornerstone of his domestic policy agenda—“charitable choice.”
Since the United Nations held the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in September 1995, women’s rights and human rights groups in the US and throughout the world have worked to “bring the Beijing platform home.”
In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch examines conservative Christian beliefs and values in order to present the overall world view of what he calls the “New Christian Right.”
The Christian Right has shown impressive resilience and has rebounded dramatically after a series of embarrassing televangelist scandals of the late 1980s, the collapse of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, and the failed presidential bid of Pat Robertson.
Conservative Stephen Carter in his book “The Culture of Disbelief” has crafted a statement of the hostility thesis for the average reader—no legal training required.
As the United States slides toward the twenty-first century, the major mass movements challenging the bipartisan status quo are not found on the left of the political spectrum, but on the right.
