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One Third (?!) of PA High School Science Teachers Believe in Creationism - And Some Teach It

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CuriousLurker4/28/2013 5:42:13 pm PDT

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

No, you really do need to sketch how you think Ronald Reagan lead to Bryan Fischer. I hear that said often, but it isn’t really explained how such a thing happened. Reagan never favored Fischer’s extremist policies, as has been pointed out here before. Fischer’s presented vision of REAGAN!!1 bears little resemblance to the actual Ronald W. Reagan.

Perspectives: Ronald Reagan and the Religious Right
PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly 11 june 2004

The Rise of the “Religious Right”: The Reagan Revolution and the “Moral Majority” (PDF)
Religion in American Politics: A Short History by Frank Lambert 2010

Bill Moyers on the Rise of the Religious Right
Moyers & Company 31 August 2012

Also see the following write-up on a six-part PBS documentary series from the mid-nineties called “With God on Our Side”:

Rise of the Religious Right
New York Times 28 September 1996