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Pelosi's Opposition: C Street Dem Who's Anti-Choice

Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. November 5, 2010.

The next election that matters: the battle for who will lead House Democrats. The outcome will show just how far to the right Democrats are willing to move.

The Family: Secretive Christian Group of Conservative Lawmakers Building a 'God-Led' Government

Anna Clark, AlterNet. October 8, 2010.

Jeff Sharlet, the journalist who helped expose a cohort of powerful lawmakers promoting a Christian Agenda at home and abroad, discusses his new book.

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.

Ethics Complaint Leveled at Right-Wing Congressional Members of Shadowy Christian Group

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. April 2, 2010.

A group of congressmen and senators living in a posh townhouse on Capitol Hill owned by the notorious Family may now have to answer to ethics committees for low rent.

Obama Religious Adviser Wants President to Speak Against Ugandan 'Kill the Gays' Bill at Prayer Breakfast

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. February 3, 2010.

At a press conference where a gay Ugandan was too frightened to show his face to the media, a member of Obama's religion council and other clergy threw down the gauntlet.

At National Prayer Breakfast, Obama to Address Shadowy Christian Group Tied to Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. February 1, 2010.

The prayer breakfast is a display of power for an underground religious group that often shapes U.S. foreign policy in ways that sometimes conflict with our policy goals.

Evangelical Bigots Visited Uganda Last Month to Warn of

Evangelical Bigots Visited Uganda Last Month to Warn of "Gay Agenda"

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. January 4, 2010.

Three American evangelicals affiliated with gay conversion groups spoke in Uganda last month on "the gay agenda" and its threat to the traditional African family.

Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays With HIV

Stephen Webster, Raw Story. November 30, 2009.

Uganda is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. And a secretive group of American politicians appears to be a driving force behind the law.

The Democratic Party: Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

The Democratic Party: Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

Katha Pollitt, The Nation. November 14, 2009.

In the wake of the passage by Democrats of a radical anti-abortion measure, Democratic women are asking, "Whose party is this?"

How Catholic Bishops Threw the Health Care Debate into Turmoil with Anti-Abortion Maneuver

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.

It took a virulently anti-choice measure to pass the House's health care reform legislation. Progressives are strategizing how to keep it from the final bill.

Meet the Senators in the Creepy Right-Wing Cult Trying to Defeat Health Care Reform

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. October 20, 2009.

The Family has spent decades consolidating power within the GOP and may have come to dominate the party even among those who do not belong to the cult.

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.

Illicit Sex and Illegal Lobbying Are All In a Day's Work For Christian Right's Sen. Ensign

Illicit Sex and Illegal Lobbying Are All In a Day's Work For Christian Right's Sen. Ensign

deleted, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.

To quiet down a staffer whose wife he was shagging, Republican Sen. John Ensign got the guy a lobbying job -- a job lobbying his own office -- and then did favors for his clients.

MSNBC's Maddow Show Propels Growing Scandal Over Washington's "Christian Mafia"

Bruce Wilson, August 18, 2009.

Now Christian media have started digging into the story.

John Ensign's Church Head Endorsed Sex-With-Succubus Economic Theory

Bruce Wilson, July 25, 2009.

International Foursquare Gospel Head Backed Claim That Japanese Emperors Have Intercourse With Demons

"C Street House" Backs Christian Nationalist H. Res. 397

Bruce Wilson, July 23, 2009.

"Family" Bible Study Group Member Randy Forbes Promotes Falsified History

Blowing the Lid off the Bizarre (and Frighteningly Powerful) Members of The Family

tristero, Hullabaloo. July 21, 2009.

These people are seriously demented, un-Democratic, and fanatical. Most importantly, they are in positions of great power.

Rachel Maddow: GOP Sex Scandal Exposes Secretive Conservative Religious Group -- 'The Family'

Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show. July 14, 2009.

Sen. John Ensign's affair has brought unwanted attention on a powerful religious network in Washington.

Is Obama Bringing Too Much Religion into the White House?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 5, 2009.

Obama is adding religious advisers to the executive branch and kicking off events with prayers vetted by his staff.

The Family's Values: America's Most Influential (and Secretive) Religious Organization

ZP Heller, AlterNet. June 16, 2008.

Jeff Sharlet's The Family will leave you stunned by the religious motivations behind seemingly every political decision in the last 70 years.

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. June 12, 2008.

In his new book, The Family, author Jeff Sharlet reveals sordid details about this power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway fundamentalist group.

Hillary's Ties to Religious Fundamentalists

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 20, 2008.

When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Barack Obama.

KONY 2012: a “Trojan Horse” To Get Into Schools, Said Invisible Children Cofounder Russell

B. E. Wilson, December 31, 1969.


Bachmann Staffer Linked to Ugandan \'Kill the Gays\' Pastor

Adele M. Stan, December 31, 1969.


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