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This Week in Blogging the Religious Right: Values Voters Summit Edition
Think Progress
The blog of the Center for American Progress has a video clip of Rep. Marylyn Musgrave's (R-CO) speech at the Values Voters Summit. Musgrave declared that gay marriage "is the most important issue that we face today." She told the audience that "when you're in a cultural war like this, you have to respond with equal and hopefully greater force if you want to win," and warned that the "future is grim" if gay marriage is not banned. Wall of Separation
Jeremy Leaming also has a run down of the FRC hoedown -- noting that Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State was a favorite target throughout the event. By the middle of the second day, one speaker, the Rev. Herb Lusk, suggested that Lynn should not be discussed further. "The enemy is out there," Lusk bellowed. "We know who our enemy is. The more you call the enemy's name, the larger he becomes." John Sugg Meanwhile, our old friend John Sugg attended a conference of an overlapping, but different kind last summer, hosted by leading Christian Reconstructionist author, Christian nationalist, home school textbook entrepreneuer among other things, Gary DeMar. John blogged about it at the time: My column this week is about a conference of theocrats held in Toccoa, Ga., two weeks ago. My print column runs about 950 words -- and this conference deserved a lot more. After all, any time a bunch of folks sit around discussing an overthrow of the established order, we ought to pay attention. Huffington Post Here is the video of a dramtic ABC News report on the film Jesus Camp, and a less good but-nevertheless-important discussion of the wider evangelical youth movement. Religion Clause
Howard Fineman reports: On another aspect of religous youth movements and the public schools. Today's Miami Herald says that religious clubs are thriving in public schools in South Florida. The Christian group, First Priority, has 80 chapters in Broward and Palm Beach counties, supported by local churches. Jewish and Muslim, as well as Christian groups are on Miami-Dade middle and high school campuses. The federal Equal Access Act requires that such groups be treated in the same way as non-religious extracurricular organizations in public secondary schools. Blog from the Capital Don Byrd has a story about yet another public school engaged in prosteletyzing thier favorite religious views -- and the inevitable law suit. Melissa Rogers Melissa Rogers has a helpful overview of the question of religious discrimination in federally funded social service and grant programs, zeroing in on president Bush's faith based initiative. She predicts big changes if the Democrats take over the congress. e pluribus media Renee in Ohio has transcribed a recent talk in Columbus,Ohio, by author Rob Boston, who also works for American United for Separation of Church and State. We Unite Ohio
Mylifeasadog has the scoop, (as it were), on Ohio Religous Right leader Rod Parsley's latest irresistable offer: Send him 75 bucks and... I'll send you the Sword of the Spirit and the Shield of Faith as my thank-you gift!
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