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Monday, November 06, 2006

* Rise of the Religious Right: Running Against Sodom and Osama

PublicEye.org

Running Against Sodom and Osama:
The Christian Right, Values Voters,
and the Culture War in 2006

A Report from Political Research Associates
by Chip Berlet and Pam Chamberlain

"To support conservative candidates in the 2006 midterm elections -- and in a test of tactics for 2008 -- the Christian Right is again trying to mobilize its base by foregrounding the threat of gay marriage. To this "internal threat," the Christian Right has added the "external threat" of Islamic terrorism, linking the two under the theme "Family, Faith and Freedom." Is the Christian Right still an electoral force? What are its current messages and strategy? PRA's report Running Against Sodom and Osama goes inside key Christian Right election rallies held in September and October."

Read the report ...

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Theocracy Watch

Taking Over the Republican Party

"The Grand Old Party is more religious cult than political organization," President of the Alamo City Republican Women's club, 1993

History from 1991 of religion taking over the Republican Party

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“God’s signs,” George W. Bush declared, “are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own...Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth can separate us from God’s love. May he bless the souls of the departed, may he comfort our own, and may he always guide our country.”
That was said on September 14, 2001, three days after the World Trade Center horror. Reverend Bush's sermon made me feel even worse.

I absolutely believe what Ellie [Contact] believes--that there is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see?

~ Jodie Foster

I don't believe in Heaven and Hell," he says. "I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life--the only thing I know to exist--to be wasted.

~ George Clooney

TIME: Quote of the Day

Vigilance when traveling ...

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