Lessons WE Should Learn from Iran

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Frank Schaeffer, a New York Times best seller, writes about his experience decades ago as a lead for the conservative movement, and how it relates to Iran today. Fortunately, he left the movement because he realized its potential damage to this nation if the hard right had their way. Now he writes about his experiences, trying to warn America if its future if we allow such fundamentalist thinking rule our government.

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The Republicans are faulting President Obama for not taking a “strong enough stand” in support of the freedom marchers in Iran. Yet if the Republican/Religious Right/Neoconservative agenda had come to full fruition over the last 35 years the Republicans would have plunged America into our own version of the misbegotten theocracy destroying Iran today. I know. As a former Religious Right leader I worked to make America “safe” for “Christian values” and dangerous to everyone else. Thankfully I, and those like me, failed.

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