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Social conservative uprising? Brownback is back
Something that hasn't been discussed too much, amid the 'apparent' Democratic sweep, is whether the whole USA has been moving farther to the right, Democrats included (Harold Ford, anyone?). I'm amazed to see that Sam Brownback's 2008 presidential bid is actually getting serious consideration.
Brownback's issues emphasis is heavily into fundamentalist-inspired social conservatism. You may know him as the guy who tried to http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/11/11/porn_hearing/index_np.html :
Indeed, we all know that pornography is major public health issue, every bit as menacing as AIDS.
The candidacy of this man is the exertion of the Christian right's influence, the effects of a extreme religious views of a rapidly growing segment of the population. It is a very worrying direction.Some more of Sam's policy-influencing kooky ideas, from the unique souls of single-celled embryos, to his certainty that evolutionary biology is all wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback#Views
Something that hasn't been discussed too much, amid the 'apparent' Democratic sweep, is whether the whole USA has been moving farther to the right, Democrats included (Harold Ford, anyone?). I'm amazed to see that Sam Brownback's 2008 presidential bid is actually getting serious consideration.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/elections/16061252.htmKansas Republican close to deciding on presidential bid
"I think there's room for a full-scale Ronald Reagan conservative in the field," Brownback said. "I fully agree that other people have much higher name identification than I do. No question about that. But I think what you have to look at is the policy positions they get out once you have an effective campaign."
Brownback's issues emphasis is heavily into fundamentalist-inspired social conservatism. You may know him as the guy who tried to http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/11/11/porn_hearing/index_np.html :
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/11/11/porn_hearing/index_np.htmlTo date, Brownback has put forward no specific legislation to address the problems he sees with pornography. But he mentioned several possible options, including a law that would encourage families to file civil suits against porn producers if they felt harmed by the material, a strategy that might put Brownback at odds with many of his Republican peers, who have championed restrictions on civil litigation. He also talked about a federal public education campaign, along the line of anti-drug advertising, to inform Americans about the dangers of watching explicit sex.
Finally, Brownback spoke of possibly expanding the law to ban certain types of pornography beyond the current obscenity statutes. But he was repeatedly cautioned by one of the witnesses, Rodney Smolla, the dean of the University of Richmond School of Law, who said that any such effort would likely be shot down by the courts. The Supreme Court, Smolla explained, has been very clear that pornography is entitled to First Amendment protections, unless it is declared obscene.
Indeed, we all know that pornography is major public health issue, every bit as menacing as AIDS.
The candidacy of this man is the exertion of the Christian right's influence, the effects of a extreme religious views of a rapidly growing segment of the population. It is a very worrying direction.Some more of Sam's policy-influencing kooky ideas, from the unique souls of single-celled embryos, to his certainty that evolutionary biology is all wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback#Views
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