Sure it is! Ideologies are not bad in and of themselves. Even the scientific method is itself an ideology. And “coersion” simply means that you force someone to do something regardless of how they feel about it. The thirteenth amendment, for example, quite firmly “coerces” an abolition ideology… no matter how I feel about it, I must comply with abolition (and rightly so!) By its very existence, the Constitution is a vehicle for “ideological coercion”… it is the sort of document that tells people what they can and cannot do.

But let’s be careful to expand our definition of “ideology” to what it really means: a collection of ideas, a worldview. We’ve all got one.

>Are we really going to regress to a time
>of the Spanish Inquisition again, is
>that what Christian conservative
>Republicans want?

I don’t think anyone is advocating this.

>Do we want homosexuals to have to hide
>in fear?

Again, I don’t think anyone is advocating this.

>What’s next, forcing all citizens to
>swear allegiance to this misguided
>”Christian Flag” in class as well as the
>U.S. flag?

I haven’t heard this from anyone.

what in their christian agenda allows them to export the ‘immigrants’ that are ‘ruining’ the country, as the claim goes? What is theologically just in their attempts to create an isolationist state?

-eddie