Daily Archives: 08/20/2010

(Community Matters) It’s for charity

(Community Matters) This morning from Mike Allen:

PERMANENT TRUCE IN CULTURE WARS? Even the right downplays gays, abortion – Old flashpoints are now relics — Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith: “Much of the right – including the noisy and influential tea party movement – sees greater and more immediate danger from this administration and Congress on issues related to the role of government and the very meaning of America than from the old ‘social issues.’ … Obama has avoided single-issue fights on issues such as gays in the military and federal funding of abortions – angering parts of his base, in the process … The diminution of the old culture wars isn’t attributable just to Obama and the state of the economy … Glenn Beck reacted with visible incredulity when … Bill O’Reilly asked him whether he considered same-sex marriage ‘a threat the country.’ ‘Will the gays come and get us?’ Beck asked. ‘I believe what Thomas Jefferson said. If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me? … Honestly, I think we have bigger fish to fry.’ … … [F]ew think that Roe v. Wade is in danger … Illegal immigration is perhaps the only cultural issue currently animating Americans, and that’s in part because of its economic component. … Consecutive presidents of both parties effectively admitted youthful drug use. … Jerry Falwell is dead; Pat Robertson makes news only when he says something provocative; and James Dobson has retired.”  http://bit.ly/chfTlZ