Reader Response
April, 1996
The Name GameHere are more responses to our "Name That Zealot" contest ("The Playboy Forum," December), in which we asked for a new name for the religious right, along with the results (see page 42).Theidiots. It's a disparaging term, to be sure, but one that includes two basic elements of the religious right: theocrats, for its longing to turn America into a Christian nation, and idiots, founded on its narrowminded lack of common sense. Another option might be Godmatics, an...
