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| | Christian right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The terms Christian Right and Religious right are sometimes used interchangeably, although this is problematic (see discussion at Religious right). | | | Support for the presence of Christianity in the public sphere, such as with organized prayer in school, and varying degrees of opposition to the separation of church and state doctrine. | | | At the same time, fundamentalists across several religions often share with the Christian Right certain positions on specific issues such as women's and gay rights, separation of religion and government, and opposition to evolving moral standards. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right
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| | Religous Right... |
| | While many of the particular views of the Religious Right are foolish and bigoted, the beliefs and values that underlie its arguments are noble. | | | The key danger of the Religious Right is its desire to impose on others not only its religious morality, but also its theological doctrines. | | | Yet despite the religious nature of our country, America's children are educated in an school environment that is totally secular, if not openly hostile to religion. |
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http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~salient/issues/941212/page7.html
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| | LIGHT OMEGA Newsletter - December 19, 2004 |
| | While the 'religious right' is not homogeneous in all respects in relation to 'end times theology, it shares, in common, a relationship to the Bible as literal truth, including an interpretation of the Book of Revelation and of other prophetic passages from the Bible, all held in a similar way. | | | Among members of the 'religious right', it is one thing to have beliefs concerning the 'end times' and to be watchful about the evolution of what looks like the fulfillment of specific prophesies. | | | It has especially come to refer to any religious enclave that intentionally resists identification with the larger religious group in which it originally arose, on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become corrupt or displaced by alternative principles hostile to its identity... |
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http://www.omegastar.org/NL/2004-12-19.html
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| | Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006): 95 Theses on the Religious Right |
| | The Religious Right has likewise desecrated the Word of God, attributing to the Bible doctrines that are hateful, cruel, and entirely antithetical to the actual contents of the Bible. | | | Item: the Religious Right has neglected the teachings of Jesus in the gospel of Luke, where He instructs that we are to show compassion for the poor. | | | Christians are to be exhorted to speak out against the Religious Right, as it is a vile heretical movement, wholly outside the teachings of the Word of God. |
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http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/95_theses_on_th.html
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| | How Prayers Poll By Steven Waldman |
| | Myth 5: Most religious extremists are in the GOP. | | | Actually, 56 percent of independents think he mentions his religious faith just the right amount compared to 20 percent who say he does it too much, according to a Pew Religion Forum study. | | | American Hispanic Catholics, it turns out, aren't that religious. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2089641
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| | Analysis of twelve major political religious voting blocs in America -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Slightly less orthodox than the Religious Right (54% of the Protestants are biblical literalists; 60% of the Catholics agree with papal infallibility) and more theologically diverse. | | | Who are they: No, it's not an oxymoron: these white evangelical Protestants hold less orthodox religious beliefs (54% are biblical literalists) and don’t show up in church quite as often as the "religious right" (35% go weekly or more often), but they belong to evangelical churches and regard themselves as born-again Christians. | | | What they care about: Like the Religious Right, conservative on social issues--73% support traditional marriage and half say their faith is important to their political thinking. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/153/story_15355_1.html
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| | King of Fools - Religious Right = Wrong? |
| | The truth is, if you depend on the Christian right for your theological sustenance; you probably won't recognize the Jesus of the Gospels. | | | If the pundits and Religious Right zealots are correct, the Son of God scored a knockout victory on Nov. 2. | | | I've compared what I read in Gospels with what I've been hearing from the Religious Right, and I've concluded that the holier-than-thous must have traded in their red-letter editions of the Good Book for red-state versions that omit most of Jesus' teachings. |
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http://king-of-fools.com/blog/weblog/posts/religious_right_wrong
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| | The Religious Right |
| | As it happens, many of the influential Neoconservatives are not religious at all, they are disproportionately secular Jews or secular "nominal" Christians, and unlikely in either case to allow the tenets of the faith some of them admit to professing to get in the way of their political ideology. | | | Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven years of Tribulation which follow. | | | It is the coincidence between the Christian Right and the so-called neo-conservatives in America that fuel the drive towards unilateralism, bullying, and a sense of divine mission. |
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http://www.eurolegal.org/neocons/usneocon5.htm
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| | The Christian Right - The Twentieth Century - Divining America: Religion and the National Culture |
| | Religious Liberalism and the Modern Crisis of Faith | | | ) The more immediate beginnings of the Christian Right lay in the vast cultural changes of the 1960s—civil rights conflicts, Vietnam protests, the alternative youth culture, the women's liberation movement, the sexual revolution, and the rise of new religions (which were mostly ancient religions emerging from obscurity). | | | The Christian Right - The Twentieth Century - Divining America: Religion and the National Culture |
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http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/chr_rght.htm
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| | The Religious Right - revealed |
| | In many cases the Religious Right has little to do with religion and plenty to do with money and politics. | | | Islam is a religion of peace and caring. | | | There is a group of people who have identified themselves as being the Religious Right. |
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http://members.shaw.ca/trogl
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| | Independent Gay Forum: Religious Right |
| | Arnold Schwarzenegger's election weakens, perhaps fatally, the hold of anti-gay religious fanatics on the Califoria GOP &; and on Republicans nationally. | | | Meet the Christian Reconstructionist movement, led by influential Religious Right theologian R. Rushdoony. | | | Gay Activists and Religious Conservatives: Through the Looking Glass |
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http://www.indegayforum.org/library/religright.html
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| | Misquoting by the Religious Right on Church-State Separation |
| | Another popular misquotation by the religious right has Madision saying that religion is the foundation of government. | | | Madison, in other words, was talking about individual's rights, of which the free exercise of his religion was one, as being the basis and foundation of government. | | | SECTION 15, Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his RELIGION according to the dictates of conscience' IS held by the same tenure with all his other rights. |
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http://www.bigissueground.com/atheistground/peters-misquotes.shtml
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| | Religious Right |
| | America must sustain a public life which can accomodate as many different faiths as there are people, but this can only exist when religion and government are kept separate. | | | We defend the fundamental constitutional principle of the separation of church and state in dozens of venues and at all levels of government, often when the Religious Right has attempted to set the definition of religious liberty in the United States and to move government into roles properly occupied by clergy and houses of worship | | | Herman sees conservative Christianity as a form of progressiveness in its own right, with a mission to prepare the world for Christ's return--no small job, considering the mess they say we're in right now. |
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http://www.queertheory.com/politics/radical_religious_right.htm
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| | Taking Over the Republican Party |
| | Not all members of fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches support the Religious Right, but those were the groups targeted by the New Right. | | | And some members of churches outside of those mentioned support the Religious Right, while many other Christian leaders strongly oppose them. | | | I'd written many stories about the Religious Right. |
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http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm
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| | Dignan's 75 Year Plan: Inside the "Religious Right" |
| | I have realized over time that this view is the antithesis of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that nothing I ever do will cause God to love me any more than He already does. | | | I used to think that I had to do the right things (don't drink, don't smoke, don't have premarital sex, go to church every Sunday, etc) in order to have God's approval. | | | My church is probably a good example of how there isn't a "Religious Right" monolith. |
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http://lawnrangers.blogspot.com/2005/02/inside-religious-right.html
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| | Religious Right - SourceWatch |
| | It also is used to denote political conservatism, rather than religious or theological conservatism (Many in the Religious Right are also religiously conservative, but the latter does not imply the former.) | | | Albert R. Hunt, The Religious Right Is About Politics, Not Faith (http://www.infidels.org/wire/stories/rr_about_politics.html), Wall Street Journal, August 20, 1998. | | | Collected Quotes: The Religious Right (http://quote.multiservers.com/religious.html), July 27, 2003. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Religious_right
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: 'Ganging up on the 'religious right'' by Rich Tucker - Jan 15, 2002 |
| | But it's time to realize that being prejudiced against religious believers -- often dismissed as the "religious right" -- is just as bad as being prejudiced against anyone else. | | | When the phrase "religious right" is used, it's often given a negative spin. | | | That's why a recent Lexus search showed 651 uses of the phrase "religious right" in the last three months of 2001. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/rt20020115.shtml
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| | The religious right wing |
| | Among the scariest religious right wingers are the Christian Reconstructionists, who advocate the restoration of Old Testament "Biblical civil law," including death by stoning for "practicing homosexuals," heretics, "blasphemers," and even disobedient teenagers. | | | If they then hear of a religious right defeat, or if the religious right hasn't made national headlines for a couple of months at a stretch, then a lot of people assume it must be dead. | | | Below is a collection of links about the Religious Right and some of its opponents. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/dvera/CoEvan/ReligRight.html
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| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | I am not a Christian, or even a religious believer, and my opinions on social issues are decidedly middle-of-the-road. | | | This procedural high-handedness is of a piece with the arrogant attitude the secular left takes toward the religious right. | | | One can disagree with religious conservatives on abortion, gay rights, school prayer, creationism and any number of other issues, and still recognize that they have good reason to feel disfranchised. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006648
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| | Goldwater vs Religious Right |
| | But the rise of the intolerant Religious Right caused him to rethink his views, a change that sparked admiration from Americans who disagreed with him on many other things. | | | "The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others," { he said,} "unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. | | | "I look at these religious television shows," he said, "and they are raising big money on God. |
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http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html
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| | Weird Science on the Religious Right |
| | As part of my religious beliefs, I do believe there are lessons for us in the Christian Bible. | | | I understand and accept that all of my religious beliefs are just that, beliefs. | | | The fact that so many people, who profess religious belief, also reject scientific study puzzles and worries me. I cannot understand how studying God’s works could in any way be at odds with a belief in God. |
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http://guerrillanews.com/headlines/4264/Weird_Science_on_the_Religious_Right
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| | Crosswalk.com - Hating the 'Religious Right' |
| | It is fair for him to try and persuade people to endorse his positions but it is wrong and demagogic to attempt to question the right of people of faith to participate in politics. | | | That is certainly what Dowd, Krugman, and others want to accomplish, and although Danforth asserts that "I do not fault religious people for political action," the intention of his essay is to encourage the Republican party to reject the efforts of religious people to influence the party's agenda. | | | But a strain of thought is developing that the political objectives of people of faith have second-class status when compared to those of, say, religiously secular elites. |
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http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weeklystandard/1321627.html
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| | The Satanic Christians of the USA - Pravda.Ru |
| | Few civilizations have been guiltless in this impulsive act of blasphemy, mixed with the temptation to mix Church and State to strengthen the latter, raising religious banners which in many cases were historically more powerful than national ones, due to the trans-national nature of religion. | | | Yet today, two thousand years after the Passion of Christ and fifteen hundred years after the death of Muhammed, we continue to see acts of depravity and blasphemy justified under religious banners on a scale as primary and warped as that used five hundred years ago by the Inquisition. | | | President are not Christian or Islamic or anything else remotely religious. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14550_Christians.html
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| | Religious right, Atheist left |
| | Think quadrant: religious right, atheist right, religious left, atheist left. | | | Nor would I consider either most of the Religious Right or most modern conservatives to be classical liberals. | | | The closeness of religion and monachy in some eras suggestes religious left to me. This may be a stretch, but I'm going for it! |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533980/posts
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| | The View from New York: A Protestant challenge to the religious right |
| | Clinton took up a pair of issues, the labeling of pro-choice advocates as "pro-abortion," and the demonizing of gay and lesbian relationships using Old Testament scriptural references. | | | NEW YORK -- With full choir singing "O God of Love, O God of Peace," and Bill Clinton quoting Scripture, the nation's long-ignored mainline Protestants served notice yesterday that they will challenge the religious right's claim to represent America's values. | | | Clinton has even sinned and repented in the manner of some conservative TV evangelists. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/188496_joel30.html
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| | Religious Right and the Kennedy Assassination |
| | Catholics, once feared by the Religious Right as a threat to American security, are now being upheld as true champions of the faith. | | | The Political Right became known as a group of fanatics. | | | Baptists who once went on campaigns to keep Catholics out of the White House, are now holding rallies in churches for Catholic political candidates.32 Baptist leaders are now promoting Catholic ideas about euthanasia and birth control. |
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http://www.livingston.net/wilkyjr/link7.htm
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| | Home - Interfaith Alliance |
| | Hate is neither a religious value nor an American value. | | | Nationalism co-opts religion, insanity takes hold: Missouri's state religion, 'Religious virgins' in South Dakota, Kentucky's religious test for public office, faith-based national security | | | Who are Christocrats and what do they want & Al Franken focuses on the Religious Right |
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http://www.interfaithalliance.org/Rr/religious.htm
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| | The Radical Religious Right |
| | Not all anti-abortionists are per se part of the religious right, but all of the religious right are necessarily anti-abortion. | | | John Whitehead, the leader and founder of the Rutherford Institute first made a name for himself (successfully) defending Chuck McIlhenny, pastor of the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, against a lawsuit filed by a gay man, formerly the church organist, whom he had fired for being gay. | | | Christian Reconstructionism is an extreme form of post-millenial, Calvinistic Protestantism which holds that the Law of the Pentateuch continues as a standard of righteousness even today for Christians, and that Christians must exercise dominion through the power of God's Law over all the Earth before Christ shall come again. |
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http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/rrr/rrrpage.html
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| | The Right Stuff, Sojourners Magazine/July 2004 |
| | By placing traditional family values at the core of its credo, the New Right was able to coax religious conservatives into political life. | | | Pundits in the media and the liberal church deemed the movement torn, shattered, and perhaps dead. | | | Of course, the meetings only take place because the Religious Right movement is busy gathering constituents in local churches who mail their members of congress and who support the "right" candidates. |
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http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0407&article=040720
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| | Today, "politicians promise to force their religious or cultural beliefs on the rest of the country." | | | Note: Although Rather says opponents of homosexual marriage and advocates for school prayer are "hard right," most Americans in polls agree with them. | | | Note: 30 percent of "self-described Christian conservatives" are Democrats, according to exit polls done following 1998 congressional elections. |
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http://www.ratherbiased.com/religious_right.htm
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| | The View From Here: Religious Right |
| | Not since the 1920s, when fundamentalists battled modernity on multiple fronts (from prohibition to Darwinism to birth control and flappers) did conservative Christians come to exert such influence in elections and the shaping of the American imagination. | | | In the land of Jefferson, the tension between religion and politics has remained. | | | The story of the Religious Right in Virginia begins in Lynchburg. |
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http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~hius316/religious/Religright.html
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| | Religious Right Hate Speech |
| | But the simple fact remains that religious extremists vilify gays on a regular basis, creating and feeding a culture that inadvertently gives comfort to those who choose to express their hate in violence. | | | It is simply not moral to give a child a gun, then feign ignorance when someone gets hurt. | | | The religious right calls gays diseased, perverted, immoral, and abomination. |
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http://www.hatecrime.org/subpages/hatespeech/hate.html
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| | James Dobson By Michael Crowley |
| | Although the notion that the religious right's "moral values" determined the 2004 election has been roundly debunked (for example, here and here), perception is reality in politics—and the indelible perception in Washington is now that George W. Bush owes his evangelical Christian base big-time. | | | In one of his books, Dobson has written of the gay-rights movement that "[e]vil has a way of overreaching." So does the far right. | | | Despite the qualms they showed about gay marriage this year, there's no reason to think they want anything like Dobson's Utopia, and they could see a replay of, say, 1998, when the perception that angry culture warriors were running the GOP damaged the party at the polls. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2109621
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| | Americans United: Religious Right Research |
| | The single greatest threat to church-state separation in America is the movement known as the Religious Right. | | | They Said It!: Religious Right Leaders In Their Own Words - PDF | | | Religious Right leaders often claim that they offer a mainstream vision for America. |
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http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=resources_religiousright
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| | Has the religious right peaked? - (United Press International) |
| | A pundit said the outcome was determined by people who go to church on Sunday and shop at Wal-Mart -- and those who rarely attend church and wouldn't be caught dead at Wal-Mart. | | | The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the religious broadcaster who co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979, said his first concern as a Christian minister was getting people saved. | | | Bush has said his personal faith gave him "the freedom to do the right thing even if it doesn't poll well." |
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http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041213-123827-9572r.htm
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| | the Religious Right |
| | The theories of evolution and intelligent design are treated as matters of religious orthodoxy and opinion. | | | On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth. | | | President Bush issued an executive order last month prohibiting federal agencies from discriminating against religious organizations in awarding grants for social work, but religious groups that become federal contractors may still discriminate in hiring on the basis of religious beliefs. |
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http://quote.multiservers.com/religious.html
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| | Technorati Tag: Religious Right |
| | Posts tagged Religious Right per day for the last 30 days. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Religious Right. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/Religious+Right
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| | People For the American Way - Right Wing Watch |
| | In addition, NPR reports that 19 of the other 21 groups on the widely-circulated government relief site are religious. | | | The “Justice Sunday” events have been, and continue to be, little more than forums in which right-wing speakers level reckless and unfair charges of religious bigotry against those who disagree with their extremist political and social agenda. | | | Don't miss our in-depth look at what the Right is saying about Alito. |
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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=158
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| | People For the American Way - Anti-Gay Politics and the Religious Right |
| | People For the American Way - Anti-Gay Politics and the Religious Right | | | Congressional leaders' willingness to embrace anti-gay rhetoric and legislation may be part of a strategy to energize Religious Right voters for the fall congressional elections, and it may reflect the longer term impact of the Religious Right's growing strength within the party. | | | Anti-gay politics have long been at the core of Religious Right fundraising and organizing efforts. |
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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2038
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| | People For the American Way - Right Wing Organizations |
| | At any given moment, the Right is at work in our public school systems, courthouses, in Congress and state assemblies. | | | Our research center monitors the power of right-wing groups, documenting their connections, funding, and reporting on their political influence. | | | For over 20 years, People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) has countered the Right Wing’s efforts to roll back, or stop, social justice progress and to reshape government and society to its liking. |
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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3147
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| | Fight the Right Network Home Page |
| | The publications and Internet mailing lists of the Communications Working Groups of the FTRN and the PAD provide a forum for numerous organizations who are working to counteract the political and religious right in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. | | | We have been in existence since April of 1994 and have organized a number of political projects in opposition to the political ascendancy of theocrats and fascists. | | | The Fight the Right Network is a Philadelphia organization with a regional focus. |
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http://www.critpath.org/ftrn/ftrn.html
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