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LeHaye is saying, quite well, what the religious right has believed for at least the last 50 years.
The only difference now is that Bush's re-election has made them bolder than they ever have been in the past. They believe that now is their time, and that Bush has made them, finally, a legitimate force in political discourse.
LeHaye is doing us all a favor by laying it out explicitly in black and white. I think the message we should all take from his book is that these people are fundamentally, at their core, anti-American.
They believe that absolute religious morality is more important, more sacred, more true, than anything else, including the United States Constitution.
There is a Higher Law, and only these people know what it is.
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