| | Talk To Action | Reframing the Religious Right: Taking First Steps (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Framing is an approach to politics and public policy in which conversation is based on "values" more than "issues" and the wonky details of public policy. |
 | | Framing and reframing is an essential ingredient of any political and communications strategy -- and it has broad implications for thinking, communicating, and movement building in response to the religious right. |
 | | That said, as important as framing and reframing is, it has for some become a political fashion; and like the reductionism of message politics before it, framing can become a substitute for aquiring broader knowledge about the opposition, and developing more coherent strategies, and buidling powerful social and political movements. |
| www.talk2action.org /story/2006/1/31/20326/2769 (3073 words) |