Today's Blue Plate Special on the Religious Right is arguably even bluer than usual. The writers featured in today's sample menu from
Talk to Action are all talking about different aspects of
taking action:
The formation of a clergy coalition; a dynamic seminar around an amazing painting about the Christian Right; an insightful analysis of the Democratic Party's approach to religion as an element of stategy; the defense of science education; a discussion of DefCon's recent ad campaign highlighting the religious right's Abramoff connection.
Diarist
Silver, deftly
beats the crap out of the Kansas City Star for utterly missing the signifiance of their own report:
To say that the Kansas City Star missed the story is an understatement. The newspaper reported Thursday on a supposedly modest news conference about what appears to be, oh say, a handful of people who were upset by a teeny governmental thingie. The paper somehow failed to note the most important fact: For the first time in the history of Kansas and Missouri, mainstream clergy and people of faith have come together to battle the religious right.
Carlos has found a fascinating Christian right magazine article which seeks to answer the question: How are the Democrats doing copying the winning "religious" formula of the Republican party?
JoelP reports on the seminar he hosted in conneciton with a showing of his painting, American Fundamentalists at church in Detroit.
Isefire continues his series on what to do about the religious right:
Recently, I've suggested specific actions to counter the Religious Right in the arena of Electoral Politics, Training the Next Generation and The Judiciary.
Now a fourth arena: science education. Don't be fooled.The Religious Right in America has been for nearly a century trying different assaults on science education-the most recent one being their attempt to force teachers to articulate "Intelligent Design" concepts in the classroom-hoping that they will breach the wall of separation between church and state. That's why defending science education is not secondarily important but fundamentally important to countering the Religious Right.
Jonathan Hutson highlights DefCon's advertising and media campaign on the Abramoff skeleton in the religious right's closet.