http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/8/11/11325/5415This Week in Blogging the Religious Right
There is dynamite material in this blog round-up that points to themes that have never been adequately exploited by those affected by the religious right. If these themes were further developed, they could almost serve as a briefinb book on how to bust the religious right. Three examples:
1) Routine lies and distortions by religious right organizations and leaders
2) The bizarre role of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in the GOP
3) Forced abortion and prostitution in the free market paradise of the Mariannas promoted and protected by Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff.
There have been a great many unexploited or underexploited fractures, flaws, hypocrises and more over the years. To make effective use of such things requires knowledge and skills in using the material effectively. These are things that are rarely encouraged anywhere left of the religious right.
And people wonder why the religious right is so powerful.
Meanwhile, I am playing catch-up with the rapidly accelerating big bang of the blogosphere -- since I have been out of action for a bit. In any case, here is a round-up of some of the most interesting and significant discussion of the religious right and what to do about it that I can find out there. Some of them I saved from a little while back. Most are very recent. Religious Right Watch
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Talk to Action
Max Blumenthal has an expose of the new Christians United for Israel headed by Texas televangelist John Hagee, "a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel's expansionist policies is 'a biblical imperative.'" In sum: "They have their own agenda and it has nothing to do with peace." Interestingly, the first lobbyist for the group, David Borg, used to be the chief of staff to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA).
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Diarist Kaylor reveals that the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance -- a religous right group that recently issued a statement that downplays concerns about climate change -- has serious conflicts of interest:
...of the signers, eight of them work for six organizations that have received a total of $2.32 million in donations from ExxonMobil over the last three years. This includes one of the four authors of the document. Two men connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal also signed the statement.
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