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Tea Party Jesus: Koch's Americans For Prosperity Sidles Up to Religious Right for 2012 Campaign

Peter Montgomery, AlterNet. April 15, 2011.

David Koch's key operative, Tim Phillips, is moving to merge the religious right with the Tea Party movement -- just in time for the presidential race.

Conservative 'Sleeper Agents' in Hollywood? The Right Wing's New War for Culture

Daniel Denvir, AlterNet. March 6, 2011.

The new conservative mediamakers are shedding the baggage of culture war hangups, freeing up energy to infiltrate culture industries and attack the left.

Ralph Reed is Back, Hoping to Harness the Energy of the Tea Party Movement

Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches. September 9, 2010.

Ralph Reed hopes to bury his past by bringing together the two most energetic right-wing movements: the Tea Party and the religious right.

Arch-Conservative U.S. Christians Help Uganda 'Kill-the-Gays' Bill Stay Alive

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. June 16, 2010.

Uganda's anti-gay bill, which espouses the death penalty for homosexual acts, still lives -- with the help of the U.S. religious right.

'Rentboy' Minister Got $120K Taxpayer Dollars From Fla. GOP Gov Candidate -- for Anti-Gay Testimony

Michael Rogers, AlterNet. May 12, 2010.

Fla. Attorney General Bill McCollum is running for governor. Will taxpayers forgive him for doubling the state's payment to George Rekers for 'expert' testimony against gays?

The Religious Right's Potty Paranoia

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Online. December 12, 2009.

Public restrooms: The final frontier of the right's war on queer folk?

Family Research Council Objects to Assistance for LGBT Senior Citizens

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. October 28, 2009.

Could they get any lower?

Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 22, 2009.

The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.

Right-Wing Lobbyists Try Scare Tactic of Abortion to Thwart Health Reform

Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect. July 15, 2009.

Using the false threat of taxpayer-funded abortion, lobbyists are attempting to scuttle support for a public option.

Christian Right Voter Summit Sells Racist 'Obama Waffles'

deleted, Media Consortium. September 15, 2008.

The Values Voter Summit hawks a a box of waffle mix emblazoned with a cartoon image of a bug-eyed, toothy, dark-lipped Barack Obama.

WHO Updates AIDS Model - Christian Conservatives Go Crazy

Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 11, 2008.

Conservatives continue to inappropriately attach moral judgments to a medical issue.