Christianity Today has an article on how Christian conservatives don’t want to be called the “religious right” anymore.
Quote: “Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media and public relations for Focus on the Family, said that when writers include terms like “Religious Right” and “fundamentalist,” they can create negative impressions.
“Terms like ‘Religious Right’ have been traditionally used in a pejorative way to suggest extremism,” Schneeberger said. “The phrase ‘socially conservative evangelicals’ is not very exciting, but that’s certainly the way to do it.”
People for the American Way says Christian conservatives made their beds, now they gotta sleep in them.
Quote: “If the phrase `Religious Right’ has negative connotations, it probably stems primarily from the fact that the people who have traditionally represented the Religious Right have caused it to, you know, have negative connotations.
“When people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson go on television and blame the 9/11 attacks on `pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, [and] all of them who have tried to secularize America,” that is the sort of thing that tends to create negative impressions about the Religious Right.`