On the Scene Crucifying the Christian Right

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ONE of the first salvos in the Democratic cannonade against the Religious Right came in a June 9 Al Hunt column in the Wall Street Journal. Hunt led with the story of Sue Munsey, former president of the Cocoa Beach, Florida, Chamber of Commerce. Miss Munsey, he related, had been considering running for Congress as a Republican. Then she attended a GOP county executive meeting “and was stunned: the session was dominated by Religious Right activists, and it was made clear that she was out of place. The following week she announced her congressional candidacy— as a Democrat.”

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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Washington, D.C.

ONE of the first salvos in the Democratic cannonade against the Religious Right came in a June 9 Al Hunt column in the Wall Street Journal. Hunt led with the story of Sue Munsey, former president of the Cocoa Beach, Florida, Chamber of Commerce. Miss Munsey, he related, had been considering running for Congress as a Republican. Then she attended a GOP county executive meeting “and was stunned: the session was dominated by Religious Right activists, and it was made clear that she was out of place. The following week she announced her congressional candidacy— as a Democrat.”