# A Comparison of the Religious Right and the P.C. Left **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 24, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570 "2001-01-24T16:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ptahlis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@Ptahlis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ptahlis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/21 "2001-01-27T04:10:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freyr \* > \*\*The image of Pat Robinson and Andrea Dworkin as bedmates; it boggles the mind! 😛 \*\* I can see this! Robertson would think “This chick seriously needs to get laid,” but her constant bitching would keep him from getting it up. Meanwhile Dworkin would make it her holy mission to educate the damned fascist, while secretly being crushed that Pat didn’t find her attractive. Both would sleep on tearstained pillows. ---
**Author:** ![Pismonque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@Pismonque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pismonque)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/22 "2001-01-27T05:11:35Z")
Hmmm. So the sociopolitical spectrum is a circle. If you and I go far enough to the right and left, we’ll meet on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/23 "2001-01-27T05:44:40Z")
If I thought that was original, I’d give the OP’er a standing ovation. Smells a bit like a chain email product, however. In which case the OP’er deserves admonition for not labeling it as non-original product. My own observations about the inconsistency of conservatives and liberals: - Conservatives want freedom and the power of the individual to rule. But then some (the ones I disagree with) want to know what people are doing in their houses and bedrooms and legislate it. - Liberals decry the above, but have no problems whatsoever spending other people’s money for their crusade du jour. Nor about favoring one perceived “lesser” group against another “powerful” group. Very divisive and anti-American. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/24 "2001-01-27T20:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > \*\*If I thought that was original, I’d give the OP’er a standing ovation. > > Smells a bit like a chain email product, however. In which case the OP’er deserves admonition for not labeling it as non-original product. > > \*\* It is entirely original. I await your ovation. Also your apology. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/25 "2001-01-28T22:38:01Z")
\*\*vanilla wrote: Excuse me, but Ms. Dworkin could do a lot better than Mr. Robertson…\*\* Actually, I was thinking of the old line: politics makes strange bedfellows… IRL, however, Pat wouldn’t go near a bed with Andrea in it 'til she disavowed her feminist, lesbian, Wiccan, anti-Christian rethoric. Which is just as well, as Ms Dworkin would be there, waiting, concealing some large, sharp implement that, after she’s finished, would put Lorraine Bobbit and Lizzy Borden to shame. Hrm… maybe that’s not such a bad idea… ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/26 "2001-01-29T03:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > > - Conservatives want freedom and the power of the individual to rule. But then some (the ones I disagree with) want to know what people are doing in their houses and bedrooms and legislate it. > > - Liberals decry the above, but have no problems whatsoever spending other people’s money for their crusade du jour. Nor about favoring one perceived “lesser” group against another “powerful” group. Very divisive and anti-American. Ah, yes! And thus we arrive at the only **true** religion…libertarianism, i.e., the belief in the divine infallibility of the “free market”! Come all thee heathens and be saved! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/27 "2001-01-29T14:30:17Z")
Freyr, this is getting truly bizarre. Where exactly does Pat Robertson say that voting non republican makes you a non christian? As if I care that he Did say it. He doesn’t choose who is a christian or not. Could we think of a More weird pairing? ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/28 "2001-01-29T16:38:12Z")
\*\*vanilla wrote: Freyr, this is getting truly bizarre. Where exactly does Pat Robertson say that voting non republican makes you a non christian?\*\* Uh, I never said this or implied it, at least not in this thread. It certainly sounds like something Pat might say, but I didn’t say he said it. **As if I care that he Did say it. He doesn’t choose who is a christian or not.** Don’t let Pat here you say that! 😃 **Could we think of a More weird pairing?** How about Jesse Helms in bed with Quentin Crisp? So what if Quentin is dead, so is Jesse, at least from the neck up. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570/29 "2001-01-29T16:42:17Z")
Oh sorry, ITR champion said it. A weird pairing? Strom Thurmond and Jennifer Aniston. ewwwwwwww [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comparison-of-the-religious-right-and-the-p-c-left/51570.md?page=1)