Ex-Evangelical Author Speaks Out Against Religious Wingnuts
Frank Schaeffer is the bestselling author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. He is the son of the late evangelist Francis Schaeffer and considered himself a lifelong Republican. He voted for John McCain in 2000, and McCain even endorsed one of Schaeffers earlier books on military service.
Lately, Schaeffer is speaking out against the radical evangelical movement that has injected itself into politics. He speaks about the direct line between Sarah Palin and religious extremism, the movement that would like Obama to fail so that, at the expense of the nation, they can say they are correct, and so on.
"Tens of millions of Americans are buying into this crap," Schaeffer said in a Democracy Now interview.
Schaeffer was tougher in his interview on D. L. Hughley's show on CNN, saying that Bush was unqualified to be president and comparing Sarah Palin with Bush and their pandering to the religious right.
He acknowledges that he, his father and James Dobson helped put all of the Christian craziness in place which has led to the Republican base to be religious or neoconservative idealists and that there is little middle ground. Schaeffer talks about why people like Ann Coulter are popular.
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