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	Crosswalk.com
		The Religious Right emerged on the national political scene in a big way in the 1980 presidential election, when Ronald Reagan was elected President with the overwhelming support of evangelical Christians.
		Fitzgerald, representing the religious left, and Nash, a prominent conservative philosopher, present a lively exchange focused on the influence of the Religious Right.
		Religious liberals conveniently force all evangelicals into their concept of fundamentalism, and then warn the nation of a horde of unwashed conservatives seeking to force an extreme vision on the nation.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/mohler/1246859.html?view=print (1223 words)

	Religous Right...
		The solutions it proposes, however, along with the Religious Right's deceitful tactics, non-secular national agenda, and often bigoted and exclusionary stances, could pose a danger both to the newly-resurgent Republican Party and to the nation as a whole.
		The Christian Coalition, the largest group within the Religious Right, was founded in 1989 by televangelist Pat Robertson from the left-over mailing lists of his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
		While many of the particular views of the Religious Right are foolish and bigoted, the beliefs and values that underlie its arguments are noble.
	www.digitas.harvard.edu /~salient/issues/941212/page7.html (2197 words)

	Religious Right St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Religious Right is best known for its positions on contemporary hot-button issues; for example, its adherents oppose abortion on demand, reject homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle, push for prayer in public schools, and protest high taxes and an expanding welfare state.
		For example, the Republican resurgence in 1994 was due in part to the strength of the Religious Right in local politics around the country.
		The post-1960s Religious Right draws some of its power from the historical forces that shaped church-state relations in the United States over the past three centuries.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101024 (678 words)

	Religious Right - Salon
		The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
		Christian right leaders denounced separation of church and state and prayed for a judge's deliverance to Satan.
		The religious right is in heaven at the prospect of remaking the Supreme Court.
	dir.salon.com /topics/religious_right/?ti=14 (410 words)

	Religious right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Religious Right is a broad label applied by both scholars and critics to a number of political and religious movements and groups that primarily are active around conservative and right wing social issues.
		Sometimes the term Religious Right is used interchangeably with the term Christian right, although some argue for a distinction.
		The Christian Right in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, for example, has made efforts to reach out to Orthodox Jews and Muslim social conservatives, especially in building coalitions against abortion and same-sex marriage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_right (413 words)

	Taking Over the Republican Party
		In June, in the San Diego County towns of Lemon Grove and El Cajon, a slate of "pro-family" Christian right activists financed by a group of conservative businessmen swept the Republican primary for all of the open council seats, along with a slew of state assembly seats.
		In the 1980 elections, the newly politicized Religious Right succeeded in unseating five of the most liberal Democrat incumbents in the U.S. Senate, and provided the margin that helped Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy Carter.
		CWA was successful in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, and their lawyers won an important textbook case in 1987 to combat Secular Humanism in the schools.
	www.4religious-right.info /taking_over.htm (3104 words)

	religious right watch: Why Religious Right Watch?
		Religious Right Watch provides news and commentary about the Religious Right and related issues, including the Separation of Church and State, science education, the battle over judges, and relevant theological and cultural topics.
		Religious Right Watch is an Internet-based project dedicated to educating people about one of the most important political movement in America in the last 30 years: the Religious Right, which is also known as the Christian Right because the vast majority of the Religious Right's leaders, members, and institutions are Christian.
		Religious Right Watch joins a community of faithful promoters of liberty who want something better than the Christian Right's narrow view of America’s future--a community of liberty and equality for all Americans, instead of the Christian Right’s movement of fear against many Americans.
	www.religiousrightwatch.com /2005/07/why_religious_r.html (5561 words)

	Where Is The Religious Right Hiding These Days?
		Of course, the main reason the Religious Right is snoozing through the Bush administration is because the president is the point man for a variety of dangerous and unconstitutional policies.
		Another example of how the Religious Right is sleeping through the Bush administration is their reaction (or lack of reaction) to the news that President Bush has placed our troops in Afghanistan under foreign commanders.
		Sadly, however, foolish loyalty to partisan politics, the desire to ingratiate themselves before the powers that be, and the love of invitations to sit at the king's table have made the Religious Right impotent, and even worse, complicit to America's demise.
	www.covenantnews.com /baldwin060321.htm (897 words)

	The Religious Right's Foreign Policy Revival - May 9, 1998
		The religious persecution bill, a top priority of the Christian Coalition and similar groups, is scheduled to be taken up by the House next week.
		Yet, even though the legislation has won support from a range of religious and human rights groups and members of both parties, supporters will have trouble claiming a broad mandate for their legislation.
		That provision would have automatically granted members of persecuted religious groups an asylum hearing, exempting them from provisions of the 1996 law that require them to first prove a "credible fear" of persecution or face deportation.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/12/cq/religious.right.html (1394 words)

	AMERICA'S PURITANS TODAY AND THE 'RELIGIOUS RIGHT'
		During the runup to the last election in 2004 there was lot of freefloating righteous indignation in the land about the moral tailspin in the media, the schools, and in the nation generally.
		And the Puritans of the Religious Right have begun to strive with the secularists and laissez-faire humanists on the left.
		This intrusion of evangelicals of the 'Religious right' into the Republican Party in America is a bit disconcerting to the old line traditional Republicans.
	endtimepilgrim.org /puritans13.htm (8053 words)

	Canada religious right
		The formula "religious right = un-Canadian" has become a point of national pride among many Canadians, in keeping with the country’s image as the "kinder, gentler" North American nation.
		Though very similar to Manning in religious and ideological terms, Day is a fresher face on the national scene—youthfully telegenic, passably bilingual, witty to the point of glibness (he once invoked family values by reference to Canada’s "two founding genders"), and with a record of implementing conservative fiscal policies and working with all conservative factions.
		What journalists focused most of their attention on, however, was Day’s relationship to the religious right, which appeared to be somewhat closer than Manning’s.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/csrpl/RINVol3No2/canada_religious_right.htm (2192 words)

	Left In Lowell » Religious Right
		And this passage is often given by the Religious Right as an excuse to abuse, pollute, and otherwise exploit nature.
		Because this is the America in which they, the religious right minority, want you to live.
		Target is claiming the 1964 Civil Rights Act gives their employees the right to do whatever they want to any customer so long as the employee claims their actions are motivated by their religion.
	www.leftinlowell.com /category/religious-right (3259 words)

	Seven myths about the religious right. - By Steven Waldman - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Turnout among the members of the "religious right" (that's the goofy way pollsters make people self-identify) was 56 percent, says Green, only slightly higher than the national average—and actually lower than that of devout Catholics, mainline Protestants, and Jews.
		The "religious right" gets a lot of attention because a) to liberals, they are verrrrrrry scarrrrrry and b) their turnout has been on the rise in the past few decades.
		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.
	slate.msn.com /id/2089641 (1677 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: The Christian Right's Humble Servant
		Indeed, beside transforming the federal government into an ATM machine for the religious right, establishing the office was a bold statement of Bush's commitment to the conservative Christian worldview.
		According to Frederick Clarkson, a leading researcher on the religious right and author of "Eternal Hostility: The Battle Between Theocracy and Democracy," the conservative Christian notion that gay marriage undermines civilization is "part of the idea that all homosexuals have a pathological need to spread their lifestyle.
		Having garnered Bush's full support for their touchstone issue, the religious right was happy to endure the parade of pro-choice RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) speaking at the Republican National Convention, and was unfazed by the fact that figures like Falwell were pointedly uninvited.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20499 (2791 words)

	The View From Here: Religious Right
		In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the Religious Right emerged as a formidable, and at times, dominant political force in American public life, grabbing headlines, capitalizing on untouched media and print markets, mobilizing previously apolitical Evangelicals, reshaping party platforms, altering the outcome of elections—and in 1994, the entire shape of Congress.
		The presence of the Religious Right at the University of Virginia in particular reached an apex during what has become known around grounds as the Wide Awake case.
		The precise nature of the influence of the Religious Right at the University of Virginia and throughout central Virginia remains ambiguous.
	cti.itc.virginia.edu /~hius316/religious/Religright.html (814 words)

	People For the American Way - Anti-Gay Politics and the Religious Right
		Far from the campaign of compassion that Religious Right leaders have portrayed, the recent ads further an explicit political agenda that seeks to criminalize gay relationships and deny basic rights to gays and lesbians in a range of critical areas: employment, housing, and families.
		As the Religious Right becomes an increasingly powerful element of the GOP base, anti-gay rhetoric and policies have become more prominent in party platforms, legislative fights, and public policy at local, state, and national levels.
		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.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2038 (421 words)

	Religious Right \| Democrats.com
		I'd like to follow up on Bob Geiger's excellent post, Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley, to assemble a complete list of religious right groups and where they stand on Predatorgate: whether they want full accountability for all Republicans involved in the coverup, or whether they are part of the Republican misdirection-blamegame-coverup themselves.
		In other words: which groups are sincere Christians (measured by strict religious right standards of puritanical sexual morality, not the loving standards of the Sermon on the Mount), and which groups are Republican piety pimps.
		Now that George W. Bush, aided by Congressional Republicans and the Religious Right, has ruined immediate hope of meaningful progress on stem cell research, it's time for Democrats to tell them to put up or shut up on their strident claims that a child is born almost the minute two people even discuss conception.
	democrats.com /taxonomy/term/186 (1980 words)

	Amazon.com: Why the Religious Right Is Wrong: About Separation of Church & State: Books: Rob Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Religious Right organizations have launched a systematic propaganda war against the separation of church and state.
		Boston does not hide his disdain for the Religious Right and it becomes very obvious in some of his statements, but he illuminates some of the dangers this small but very influential group pose.
		I've personally found the religious right to be much less forthcoming with opposing facts that refute their arguments.
	www.amazon.com /Why-Religious-Right-Wrong-Separation/dp/0879758341 (2037 words)

	Religious Right
		Most valuable may be her explanation one of the most fundamental and least understood tenets of the Christian right, called premillennial dispensationalism, which describes the conditions of Christ's return and the apocalypse, ending with the destruction of sinners and this world.
		To Herman, the forward thrust of premillennial dispensationalism suggests that the Christian right is not merely a backlash against liberal society.
		The Institute for First Amendment Studies, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational and research organization, was founded in 1984 by former fundamentalist minister Skipp Porteous and attorney Barbara Simon, to expose and counter the political activities of the Religious Right.
	www.queertheory.com /politics/radical_religious_right.htm (789 words)

	the mindful mission - Category: Religious Right
		And it is even worse that those leaders of the Religious Right do not care about honesty and truth telling, but instead back on (untrue) talking points with little foundation in reality.
		The Religious Right is clearly a political organization that simply uses religious language to push forward right-wing politics.
		On top of that, it is preposterous to think that the right to religious expression equates to the right to hateful rhetoric against minority groups.
	www.mindfulmission.com /index.php?cat=190 (4792 words)

	The Religious Right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.eurolegal.org /neocons/usneocon5.htm (3313 words)

	Challenging the Religious Right
		century agitated for the right to vote with the argument that advancing the rights of women would enhance the conditions of society, that women as voters would simply expand their roles as housekeepers and mothers to clean up the ills of society, Gage believed that women deserved the right to vote, to equality, for themselves.
		In her words, “The soul must support its own supremacy or die.” The notion that women’s rights belonged to themselves, to be used for themselves, and that women’s development and elevation as it benefited women was the point and goal of the suffrage movement was radical.
		Because she did not feel in the least bit obligated to demonstrate loyalty to the Church or its teachings, Gage was able to approach her pericopes with a forthrightness and intellectual vigor characteristic of her academic analyses of the relationship between women’s subjugation and the abuses of religion.
	www.matildajoslyngage.org /right.htm (1772 words)

	civilrights.org -- Religious Right Wields Clout
		Religious conservatives contended that the $50 million contract, under which CARE was to distribute money to both secular and faith-based groups, was being guided by an organization out of touch with religious values.
		President Bush's faith-based initiative has not only increased funding for church groups, but also raised the expectations of the religious right, which has asserted a stronger role in setting policy.
		The fight to preserve religious liberty and the civil rights movement are closely aligned.
	www.civilrights.org /issues/religious/details.cfm?id=47597 (191 words)

	King of Fools - Religious Right = Wrong?
		If the pundits and Religious Right zealots are correct, the Son of God scored a knockout victory on Nov. 2.
		Then, of course, there's Jesus' encounter with the rich ruler who said he was a righteous man because he'd followed the Ten Commandments since his youth (though he gave no indication that he'd ever erected a monument dedicated to them in a public place).
		I agree that there are some on the right who wrongly wield heavily excerpted versions of the Gospels to accomplish their own specific goals.
	king-of-fools.com /blog/weblog/posts/religious_right_wrong (3312 words)

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