Engle's actions and words have been somewhat lost amidst the national hoo ha over Glenn Beck's pseudo Martin Luther King dream rally.  

I posted an essay a few days ago here at Talk to Action (crossposted  Daily Kos, Open Left and Street Prophets) detailing how this relates to some of the Religious Right's main plans for the Fall.  Since then, Joe Conason at Salon.com picked-up on my report, and showing the connection between Beck's quasi religious political rally, and Engle's quasi political religious rally in Sacramento. Also, AlterNet reprinted my original story today.

But the political blogosphere has with few exceptions been pretty quiet about all this -- even though this weekend's rally is intended as the kick-off of a series of Christian Right events intended to stimulate their constituencies -- young people in particular -- into political action this Fall.  What's more, these events are being choreographed by none other than Newt Gingrich (!!!).

These events are not intended as mass rallies so much as mass cyber-casts. There is a press release just today giving the details of the weekend broadcasts on "God TV."  It will be interesting to see how well this works for them. It will also be interesting to see how effectively the emergent new stage of reorganization, coordination and cooperation among conservative Catholics, Protestant fundamentalists and neo-Pentecostals works out as well.  

Rather than repeating myself, I offer this as a reminder that the Christian Right has been doing some rather shadowy organizing while Glen Beck draws all of the attention.  But they will begin to step out into the sunlight this weekend.