--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > In part, it is because there are well-organized, > well-funded groups behind the USA's anti-evolution > crusade. > > Dave
This is, however, a response that provides no information. There are well-organized and well-funded groups in the United States for _everything_. The amount of money thrown out by the Ford Foundation _by itself_ is probably more than all of the prominent right-wing funding sources put together, and George Soros just might be spending more than everyone else _combined_ (no one really knows). The question is, why do such groups exist/have power in the US when they don't exist elsewhere? A couple of the other posters suggested an answer, though. It is a truism said so often that people forget its meaning that American politics are far less elite-driven than those of other democracies (see, for example, the death penalty debate in the US versus Europe). In this case some of the other posters have written things wihch suggest that where there are significant evangelical and/or fundamentalist religious populations in other industrialized states they too object - it's just that in the US they are able to influence the political process, while in Europe (for example) they are marginalized. This makes sense. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l