FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Michelle Bachmann

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 21, 2010 9:49:47 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
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> This Minnesota Congress member is regularly in the news, and her national 
> attention and popularity tell much about the state of US voters and the 
> changing Republican Party. We can also learn much about the strong role 
> conservative religiosity plays in political life. The Wikipedia entry can 
> tell you that her law degree is from Oral Roberts University. But now a long 
> article by Andy Steiner in Minnesota Monthly discusses the formative role 
> Francis Schaeffer played in her college years. (Younger readers may only know 
> his son Frank Schaeffer who has broken with the family evangelicalism, but it 
> was very powerful in the 1970s).
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> http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/September-2010/Michele-Bachmann-is-the-most-Woman-in-Politics/
> 
> Bob