Fairness - The Commentary

The signs are all there. Liberal church bodies are fighting back. Every so often in the past they did so, but now the open, unholy marriage of extreme right-wing bigotry, its political proponents, and right-wing religionists seems to have put denominations and religious leaders on the alert. It has taken decades for liberal religion to value itself highly enough to open its closet door and begin to outwardly challenge the monopoly on “Christianity” trumpeted by right-wing churches. Maybe the triumph of radical and shamelessly aggressive right-wingers in these last presidential and congressional races finally made it sink in.   Liberal religion realized that it had better speak up or forever be shut out of national debate – even its very existence is threatened by politics ending church-state separation. Liberal religion has always been there. Even before the beginnings of “Fundamentalism” in the early twentieth century, religious liberalism promoted progressive social change – figh...