The Case Against The Religious Ideologue Takeover

In a very in depth look at the way the Republican Party has so deeply aligned itself with the Christian right, Robert Kuttner of the Boston Globe provides us with the very reason why church and state are separated. "America, which separated church and state precisely to protect the private right to worship, has long had its share of religious absolutists who have wanted to harness the power of the state to their own view of revealed truth. But never before in our history has the government deliberately and cynically intervened on the side of the zealots." More on this article can be read at CommonDreams.org