Mark Dankof: The Alliance of Giuliani and the “Christian” Right: Has the War on Terror Merged With War on the Unborn? (Al Bawaba, Amman)

My good friend, Dr. Paul Gottfried of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, goes a long way toward explaining the real agenda of the American “Christian” Right in his latest effort for The American Conservative, entitled The Giuliani-Driven Christians.

Dr. Gottfried notes that Quinnipiac polls indicate Giuliani’s present status as the most popular Presidential candidate among Protestant evangelicals, and that Hizzoner’s present lead in the polls in key swing states, especially Florida, is directly attributable to “white Evangelical voters.” The Washington Post has chimed in, reporting in February that Giuliani is “surging among white Evangelicals.”

The implications of this burgeoning phenomenon are as striking as they are demonically draconian. Hizzoner, after all, is a leading advocate of abortion-on-demand, even as he chides Islamic societies in Fox News-sponsored Presidential debates for attitudes and policies allegedly detrimental to the rights and dignity of women. And aside from the Big Apple Mayor’s publicized liabilities in personal life and conduct, it seems incredible to the point of the outrageously satirical to contemplate Giuliani’s adulation by the likes of Religious Right mogul Cal Thomas, given Hizzoner’s strident support of the militant homosexual rights constituency. That support, symbolically expressed by Rudy’s past personal appearance in Costume Drag in New York for a Gay Pride parade, suggests that all things are now possible in the increasingly comfortable alliance of the “Christian” Right with the globalist, Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. What is next, a Giuliani campaign appearance at a National Prayer Breakfast in Babylon-By-The-Potomac with Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Billy Graham, Al Goldstein, and Barney Frank?