Rather alarmingly, there are commentators calling for Senator Obama, once he becomes President, to not reverse President Bush's executive orders that limited reproductive choice. Frederick Clarkson of Talk To Action has called these commentators to account in his piece, "When Liberals Become the Religous Right."
From the article,
"E.J. Dionne...joined other Washington Insiders in arguing that the best way for Obama to find common ground on abortion is to capitulate to the demands of Religious Right anti-abortion activists.... In other words, the president should betray his pro-choice supporters and continue policies that are not based on science but on religious right ideology. He says, Obama should govern as the "cultural moderate he promised to be. He should not lose his chance to make cultural warfare a quaint relic of the past."
As Clarkson points out, the religious right shows absolutely no sign of working to make the culture wars a "quaint relic of the past," and he outlines some recent events as evidence.
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