Right-Wing Agenda
The conservative movement is not monolithic. It has many branches, each with its own ideas of the right way — the far-right way — to run the world.
A Florida school board wants to ban a children’s book about Cuba from its school libraries. The book isn’t harsh enough on the Cuban government. And there’s no better way to fuel the mind of a child than to deny him access to ideas you disagree with.
A coalition of conservative groups is pushing for an FBI to crackdown on in-room adult movies in hotels. Adults, unlike children, can make their own decisions. But sometimes they choose incorrectly, and we have to put a stop to that.
A church in Watertown, New York dismissed a Sunday School teacher who had taught there for 54 years. Why? Because she was female. In a letter, the minister quoted the Bible as saying: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” Over in Afghanistan, the Taliban are thinking, “This is the kind of American we can work with!”