Ethics

Religious Right Leaders and Slavery Apologists

By Ed Brayton

In this country, you've got the religious right and then you've got the religious right's religious right, the really far right loonies. The latter group includes reconstructionists and dominionists and a fair number of Southern nationalists. But sometimes those lines blur together and it becomes hard to tell where the first group stops and the second one starts. Especially when those who fancy themselves members of the first group go out of their way to associate with those in the second group, as Chuck Colson, who is generally seen as a member of the mainstream religious right, is doing with Douglas Wilson, who is undeniably in the second group. As the Southern Poverty Law Center notes, Colson is going to be the keynote speaker at one of Wilson's gatherings.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).