Christian right regroups after Obama victory

Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved."

But few are writing obituaries this week for the Christian right, which has been wrongly considered dead after setbacks like the demise of the Moral ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.4
by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 9, 2008

Gorski talks to a lot of religious people here. The posits are not supported by any survey information to see how prevalent they are. The section on anti-gay referendums does not mention the lies and fears pandered to in promoting their passage. The article does not question the church intrusion into the matter of election of officials in a secular state. The effect of federal moneys granted to church social organizations is not mentioned as an influence.

The radical right church with it's toxic opposition to reality and science, and its advocating of faithfully following the one right dogma, endangers society, freedom, and democracy.

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