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Frank Schaeffer saw the birth of the religious right from the inside.
His father, the brilliant Presbyterian theologian Francis Schaeffer, was the intellectual father of the movement.
He channeled the countercultural spiritual yearnings of '60s-era Jesus Freaks into the right-wing movement that now dominates the Republican Party.
It was Schaeffer who first led evangelicals to mobilize against abortion, for many years ignored as primarily a Catholic concern.
His three-party documentary, How Should We Then Live? which Frank produced, inspired a whole generation of evangelicals into politics, including Michele Bachmann, who cites it as a formative influence.
Frank was a conservative Christian celebrity in his own right, keynoting the Religious Broadcasters Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Now, though, he has a new message.
The Christian right, he says, is fundamentally motivated by an anxious, terrified obsession with sex, an obsession that once drove him as well.
“Since the 1970s, the American culture wars have revolved around a fear of sex and women no less insane and destructive than any horror story to come out of Afghanistan,” he writes…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...talks-about-his-new-book-sex-mom-and-god.html
His father, the brilliant Presbyterian theologian Francis Schaeffer, was the intellectual father of the movement.
He channeled the countercultural spiritual yearnings of '60s-era Jesus Freaks into the right-wing movement that now dominates the Republican Party.
It was Schaeffer who first led evangelicals to mobilize against abortion, for many years ignored as primarily a Catholic concern.
His three-party documentary, How Should We Then Live? which Frank produced, inspired a whole generation of evangelicals into politics, including Michele Bachmann, who cites it as a formative influence.
Frank was a conservative Christian celebrity in his own right, keynoting the Religious Broadcasters Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Now, though, he has a new message.
The Christian right, he says, is fundamentally motivated by an anxious, terrified obsession with sex, an obsession that once drove him as well.
“Since the 1970s, the American culture wars have revolved around a fear of sex and women no less insane and destructive than any horror story to come out of Afghanistan,” he writes…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...talks-about-his-new-book-sex-mom-and-god.html