Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 18:17:51 -0800
From: B Mayer <concrete-AT-idiom.com>
Subject: Re: Buchanan and religion


Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> At 5:11 PM 3/4/96, Jon Beasley-Murray wrote:
> 
> >I was surprised recently to learn of Buchanan's Catholicism.  I guess I
> >had simply assumed his membership or affiliation with protestant
> >fundamentalism.
> >
> >A friend of mine suggests that Dole (or whomever) will be able effectively
> >to cut much support from under Buchanan's campaign simply by (subtly or
> >amicably, as may be) pointing this out to the Christian Coalition kids.
> 
> His brand of anti-market right-wing rhetoric has a more Catholic/European
> feel than your usual American Protestant individualist stuff.
> 
> It is odd to see Protestant fundamentalists behind Pat; those sorts of
> people used to burn Irish Catholics, didn't they? I think, though, that
> abortion has managed to unite the Catholics & Protestants.
> 
> Doug
> The difference between far-right catholics and protestants is another one of those obsolete 
observations on U.S. politics, rather like that of "rightwing populism".
		
			-Brad Mayer


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