The role of moderate and progressive religious organizations can be quite significant. History provides that lesson for us. |
There's not a desire to take the model of the religious right and change some of the words and, voila, you have the views of the moderate and progressive religious movement - but in fact to elevate the voices so that there's an elevation of the values and the views of those who come from the moderate and progressive community. |
To their credit, part of what has happened is that the religious right had a much larger megaphone - that while the civil-rights movements and those other movements were under way, the religious right became really concerned about that and, to their tactical credit, developed media outlets and developed a way of communicating with people who shared many of their views to try to elevate their goals in a way that moderate and progressive religious leaders did not. |