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Kim Gandy of NOW: Reclaiming Morality

9 December, 2007 (13:11) | democracy, democrats, election, family, feminism, GOP, media, news, NOW, opinion, politics, Republicans, theocracy, women | By: Catherine Morgan

This is from an article by Kim Gandy of NOW.

It’s not often that I agree with conservative columnist George F. Will, who called the term “value voters” an “aggressively annoying new phrase in America’s political lexicon.” He could have been channeling my thoughts when he said in a 2006 Washington Post piece: “This phrase diminishes our understanding of politics. It is…arrogant on the part of social conservatives and insulting to everyone else because it implies that only social conservatives vote to advance their values.” Yet in a CNN news report on Nov. 28, the terms “Christian conservatives” and “values voter” were treated as interchangeable.

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