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The Truth about Conservative Christians - What They Think and What They Believe (Hardcover)
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The Truth about Conservative Christians - What They Think and What They Believe (Hardcover)
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Ever since the reelection of President Bush, conservative
Christians have been stereotyped in the popular media:
Bible-thumping militants and anti-intellectual zealots determined
to impose their convictions on such matters as evolution, school
prayer, pornography, abortion, and homosexuality on the rest of us.
But conservative Christians are not as fanatical or intractable as
many people think, nor are they necessarily the monolithic voting
block or political base that kept Bush in power. Andrew M. Greeley
and Michael Hout's eye-opening book expertly conveys the
complexity, variety, and sensibilities of conservative Christians,
dispelling the myths that have long shrouded them in prejudice and
political bias. For starters, Greeley and Hout reveal that class
and income have trumped moral issues for these Americans more often
than we realize: a dramatic majority of working-class and
lower-class conservative Christians backed liberals such as Jimmy
Carter and Bill Clinton during their runs for president. And when
it comes to abortion, most conservative Christians are not
consistently pro-life in the absolute fashion usually assumed: they
are still more likely to oppose the practice than other Americans,
but 86 percent of them are willing to tolerate it to protect the
health of the mother or when the woman has been raped, and 22
percent of them are even pro-choice. What do conservative
Christians really think about evolution, homosexuality, or even the
meaning of the word of God? Answering these questions and more, The
Truth about Conservative Christians will interest--and surprise--a
broad range of readers, especially in this heated election year.
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