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    "Among right-wing Christians there seems to be a real psychological compulsion to “make America a Christian nation.” It looks to outsiders as more than just wanting everyone to be “saved” but as a driven emotional need to religiously justify themselves and their world-views and feel their worth through a vindicating retribution over those who, even religiously, don’t accept their zealous compulsion.
   In many ways, it’s been a key to their agenda since the days of the “Moral Majority” in the 1960s in reaction to civil and human rights movements and victories for those who challenged the prejudices of the times. They’ve even rewritten their own American history to claim that the country was founded to be a “Christian nation” by its Deistic, Transcendentalist, and other more liberal Christian founders.
   That compulsion became popular over generations through a political program pushing for what at the end of the last century came to be called federal “faith-based initiatives” with both political parties playing to the right-wing religionists for their support. For those politicians who were into privatizing social programs, it fit well with their goal of moving those programs away from a secular sense of inclusion that meant including those who weren’t acceptable to the right-wing and placing money in the hands of sectarian religious charities that were initially only covertly allowed to discriminate.
   As White Evangelical churches turned from a rejection of the culture around them that was their stance through the 1950s to battling what they called “culture wars,” which meant attempting to recreate the dominant culture in their own image of what their Christianity began to preach it should be, they turned more and more toward relying on government as the solution...."

The Fairness Project On-Line Activist Tool Kit

The Fairness Project is in the process of making available the handout materials from Dr. Minor's popular workshop: "Being an Activist Without Being a Victim." These materials are chosen because they encourage activist leadership to proceed from a progressive, healing model which contradicts the models of leadership found in most popular forms, models that are meant to keep the system in place rather than to make changes that support humanity, and result in burnout among leaders.

To access the current materials in The Fairness Project Tool Kit for activist leaders, click here.

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