Before his fall from grace, Haggard was the poster child of America's religious right, a nationalistic stepchild of Protestantism that is staunchly conservative, xenophobic, politically active, predominately Caucasian and, like Haggard, curiously preoccupied with gay culture.Hilariously, the sculptor of the above statue has another website: bikerartonline.com
I found Haggard's obsession with abortion and same-sex marriage -- and the religious right's for that matter -- quite odd. Especially given the enormous, sword-toting, homoerotic angel statue I'd seen in Pastor Ted's church lobby...Evidently, the Jesus who the religious right prays to is more concerned with boycotting Hollywood for releasing Brokeback Mountain than with feeding the hungry or global warming.
Monday, December 25, 2006
British take on US's Christianists
Very nice article published a week ago in the UK's Independent: America's religious right: God's own country.
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Obviously very late to be posting on this, but that statue was a gift and Haggard always hated it. If it was entirely up to him he would not have displayed it.
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