Danforth says he remains a loyal Republican but believes GOP leaders should speak out against the religious right and move toward the center location from which it lost election after election in the past. "On a whole host of issues I would be with the Republicans," the senator maintained. "I just want them to disengage themselves from the Christian right."

Two problems exist here. One has to do with economics, and the second with theology.

First, these churchmen practice bad economics. Death taxes create disincentives for investing and expanding businesses, generate wasteful spending on tax avoidance measures, drain resources from businesses, can force some businesses to close or be sold, and restrain job growth.

The role of women in the Christian church has expanded increasing in the later half of the 20th century and should grow even more extensively in this new millennium. Justification for this, especially among the self-proclaimed liberal theologians, is the supposition that Paul's instruction was indeed to the early church and was true for its time but not for all time: it was social doctrine rather than theological dogma.

The sins Dr. Crouse mentions in her essay are as follows: teenage pregnancy, sex outside of marriage, abortion, drugs, unwed births, divorce, cohabitation, STD's, homosexuality, and the shooting of innocent school children. In her view, these evils are the results of a liberal onslaught carried out by the media, the universities, liberal think tanks, and by progressive humanist feminists.