I heard this guy interviewed on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now". Ever hear it? You'd probably like her. I try to listen every day.

Interesting! Imagine having your eyes blined by faith only to one day wake up and realize your had become part of a diobolical plan for a revolution meant to abolish our republic and put in its place a theocracy. Oooohhh!

It does give one hope though becasue if there are 'some' who were still able to come to these realizations, even after such a staunch indoctrination, then there might yet be others.

Well imagine that - another outright discrimination by fundamentalist Christians. They want the religiously protected right to indoctrinate thier own children as well as adopted and foster children, but they would deny the right of lesbians and gay to indoctrinate their own children into the world of homosexuality.

Just interesting reading, for those who think the christian right is a warm and fuzzy organization... and those that know better...

Frank Schaeffer spent several years making a good living writing books promoting the Religious Right's worldview and speaking before rapturous crowds of fundamentalist Christians.

Schaeffer, the son of evangelical guru Francis Schaeffer, was the closest thing to a rock star that politically conservative fundamentalism can offer. As the Religious Right soared in the 1980s, Schaeffer was there to ride the wave. Young, bright and charismatic, he could have founded his own Religious Right group or perhaps even launched a political career.

Twenty years have passed. What does Schaeffer think of the Religious Right today? He wouldn't touch it with the proverbial 10-foot pole -- and the feeling is mutual. A spiritual and professional crisis brought Schaeffer to the understanding that the Religious Right has it all wrong.

Continued here http://www.alternet.org/rights/78818/

"What I slowly realized was that the religious-right leaders we were helping to gain power were not 'conservatives' at all, in the old sense of the word. They were anti-American religious revolutionaries."

"Pat Robertson would have had a hard time finding work in any job where hearing voices is not a requirement."

"Long before Ralph Reed and his ilk came on the scene, Dad got sick of 'these idiots' as he often called people like Dobson in private. They were 'plastic,' Dad said, and 'power-hungry.'"

"There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed -- sort of -- but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else."

keep it coming boo2u

Ya, I know, amusing isn't it. If I had had a choice as a kid I would have given my right arm to have had a gay family, considering what I did have in a so called christian home. I know three gay families, with kids and those kids are great, smart, well adjusted well behaved and happy. Too bad most don't know about them.