Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Robert Sirico in the Detroit News: Tea party must define ideas

If the recent analysis by the New York Times on the success of the tea party movement is correct, the influence of this movement favoring limited government and low levels of taxation may have a decided impact in the upcoming elections, particularly in holding the Republican leadership's feet to the fire on a variety of related issues. 

The influence and more especially the authenticity of the tea party movement also is being debated in religious circles where some writers have expressed a skepticism as to how the evident religious sentiments expressed by many (but not all) tea party activists can be compatible with the undeniable Christian obligation to tend to the needs of "the least of these my brethren." 

Read the entire article at Detroit News

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