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Democracy & Technology Blog Insights into Christian Coalition’s curious support for net neutrality regulation

Hance Haney
July 20, 2006
Net Neutrality

Conservative advocacy groups are nearly unanimous in opposing net neutrality regulation. Then there is the Christian Coalition, which has inexplicably joined forces, on this issue, with groups who normally oppose its religious and social conservative goals. In a recent column, Dick Armey comments that this is not the first time leadership at the Christian Coalition has “sided with the forces of big government and against good sense and the rest of the conservative movement.” The Christian Coalition has also supported tax increases, according to Armey, and local chapters are distancing themselves from the organization’s Beltway leadership.
See: “Perspective: Net ignorance of the Christian Coalition,” by Dick Armey, CNET News.com

Hance Haney

Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project
Hance Haney served as Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute, in Washington, D.C. Haney spent ten years as an aide to former Senator Bob Packwood (OR), and advised him in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee during the deliberations leading to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He subsequently held various positions with the United States Telecom Association and Qwest Communications. He earned a B.A. in history from Willamette University and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.