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Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing 'Discipline' Guides

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 8, 2011.

There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God.

Is Anti-Gay Group "Focus on the Family" Dying as Donations Drop? A Look Back at 7 of Their Strangest and Most Appalling Moves

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. September 19, 2011.

As donations fall and jobs are cut, are Focus on the Family's days of using gay rights as a wedge issue finished?

I Was a Right-Wing Evangelical Pastor -- Until I Saw the Light

Jason Childs, Church & State Magazine. May 21, 2011.

The fundamentalist political movement is the beginning of a cultural revolution that will take our nation to a very dark place.

Insider: "The Christian Right is Aiming to Destroy All Things Public"

Frank Schaeffer, De Capo Press. May 13, 2011.

The Right has pushed for the state to hand over its public duties to private companies, including military operations, prisons, health care, public transport, and all the rest.

How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 10, 2010.

The bible-thumping white underclass have given a big boost to the corporate bottom line.

How Conservatives and the GOP Destroyed the "Traditional Family" They Claim to Treasure

Alex Henderson, AlterNet. August 30, 2010.

Thanks in part to the GOP's failed policies, America is such a hard place to raise a family that many people are delaying getting married and having kids.

6 Ways Religious Frauds Try to Make Gays and Lesbians Straight

Ted Cox, AlterNet. August 30, 2010.

Thanks to the unscientific, unregulated underworld of ex-gay therapy, frauds and hacks of all stripes are getting away with any kind of therapy they can think up.

Meet the Military Man Battling Dangerous Christian Extremism in the Military

Matt Harwood, TruthOut.org. July 12, 2010.

A pervasive Christian supremacist milieu exists inside the U.S. military that's a danger not only to constitutional order, but to the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Men Who Think They Should Control Their Girlfriends' and Wives' Bodies

Brett Copeland, RH Reality Check. June 30, 2010.

Some men think they should control their partners' decision to have a child, a dangerous attitude bolstered by the Christian Right's "reclaim masculinity" crusade.

Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 8, 2010.

Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, are aiming for a theocracy.

Rachel Maddow Interview with Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is 'Trolling for Assassins'

AlterNetNovember 19, 2009.

Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."

Elie Wiesel's Shocking Stage Appearance With Mad Preacher and Anti-Semite John Hagee

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. October 29, 2009.

The controversial Christian right figure baselessly trashed Obama, and Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Wiesel calls him "dear pastor." What gives?

Republican Senate Sex Scandals Point Back to Secretive Conservative Christian "Family"

Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches. October 12, 2009.

It was a hot summer full of sex scandals for GOP members of "The Family," the exclusive conservative Christian group with designs on DC power.

At the Values Voter Summit, Wing-Nut Christian Right Plots Its Comeback

Rob Boston, Church and State. September 28, 2009.

Religious conservatives, safely out of the public eye, let loose a string of shocking diatribes at the Values Voter Summit.

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009.

Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.

Is The Evangelical Right Really Turning on Itself?

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 6, 2009.

Or is this some smart strategy at work?

When Times Go Bad, Americans Don't Turn to the Christian Right -- They Turn to Each Other

Frank Rich, The New York Times. March 16, 2009.

This economic crisis spells an exodus for the Christian ayatollahs and the culture wars of the past 40 years.

Young Evangelicals Are Ditching the Christian Right's Bigoted Agenda

Pam Chamberlain, The Public Eye. March 6, 2009.

Evangelical students have moved past their elders into more tolerant territory.

Bristol Palin's Truth Telling on Teen Pregnancy Sets Right-Wingers Sputtering

Geoffrey Dunn, Huffington Post. February 23, 2009.

If the Christian Right really wants to confront teen pregnancy, they'd be smart to listen to Bristol Palin and absorb her real-life wisdom.

Why the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Ban Won

Richard Kim, The Nation. November 6, 2008.

The Christian right outmaneuvered gay rights activists when it came to reaching out to California's huge minority populations.

Sarah Palin, 21st Century Theocrat

Michelle Goldberg, The Nation. September 29, 2008.

The religious right can be confident that they'd have a fundamentalist in the White House with Sarah Palin.

The Christian Right's Got a New Stealth Tactic to Smuggle Creationism into Science Class

Sandhya Bathija, Church & State Magazine. August 27, 2008.

A new law in Louisiana allows teachers to bring in "supplemental textbooks" about evolution, the origins of life and global warming to science class.

Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Movement

Tarso Luís Ramos, Pam Chamberlain, The Public Eye. July 31, 2008.

The Christian Right is adamant about their hatred of abortion and same-sex marriage. Now they're adding undocumented immigrants to the list.

Religious Right-Wing Group Infiltrates the Pentagon

Douglas MacKinnon, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008.

"When the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call labels your latest novel "a Christian Jihad," angry emails are sure to follow."

McCain Doesn't Have a Prayer

Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. July 28, 2008.

John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's unholy alliance?

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