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Found a very interesting resource on the aspects of the Right, including the Religious Right and its various permutations. The main website is The Public Eye, and it is full of interesting and educational archived files, links, and insights into the agendas of the far right, and what makes them tick, what they are doing, and most important, what we can do about it.

Read it and learn.

Sunfell

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY sunfell)

The Christian Taliban article in Alternet examines the creeping fundementalist takeover of the US government.

During the Taliban rule of Afghanistan the world got a good look at what happens when religious zealots gain control of a government. Television images of women being beaten, forced to wear burkas, and banned from schools and the workplace helped build strong public support for the President's decision to invade Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.


But even as President George W. Bush denounced the brutal Islamic fundamentalist regime in Kabul, he was quietly laying the foundations for his own fundamentalist regime at home. For the first time far right Christian fundamentalists had one of their own in the White House and the opportunity to begin rolling back decades of health and family planning programs they saw as un-Christian, if not downright sinful.