John, please read my posts in their entirety before blasting off into outer space.

You will note that I said "you may draw a distinction there between my use of the words 'Right' and 'conservative' if you wish."   I have been drawing that distinction all along. Obviously you didn't wish to draw any distinction, you apparently chose to equate the two.

I do not refer to George W. Bush as a "conservative" because I know what a conservative is, and he is not one, not by any standard that classic conservatives such as Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley would find acceptable.

A truly conservative Christian does indeed hew close to the teachings of Jesus. One cannot regard oneself as a conservative Christian unless one does. What I refer to as the Christian Right is as distinct from Christian conservatives as George Bush and the other neo-"conservatives" are from classic conservatives.

Please don't set up a straw man, call it by my name, and then when you knock it down, try to claim that you have refuted what I actually said.

Don Firth