The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

What's New?

March-2005

MISCELLANEOUS

John Bolton In His Own Words: Bush's UN Ambassador Nominee Condemns United Nations, Democracy Now, March 31, 2004

Help Take Back Our Courts from the Anti-God Left, Fundraising Letter from Traditional Values Coalition

In the Name of Politics By JOHN C. DANFORTH, New York Times, March 30, 2005

Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate: Because of Beliefs, Some Refuse To Fill Birth Control Prescriptions, Washington Post, March 28, 2005

Censorship in the Science Museums, New York Times, March 28, 2005

The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay, New York Times, March 27, 2005

The Soul of the New Exurb, New York Times Magazine, March 27, 2005

Movement in the Pews Tries to Jolt Ohio, New York Times, March 27, 2005

The Decency Police, Time Magazine, March 20, 2005

Living With Dignity, TomPaine.com, March 23, 2005

Sunday in A Red State by Joe Bageant, Dissident Voice, March 22, 2005

Casting Aside the Separation of Powers by John Conyers, Truthout, March 20. 2005

How to Beat the Christian Right, Part I, by Frederick Clarkson, DailyKos, March 20, 2005

A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano, New York Times, March 19, 2005

What Would Jesus Teach? New Yorker Magazine, March 18, 2005

'Plan B' contraceptive nears approval, Washington Post, March 18, 2005

FCC's New Standards-Bearer, Bush Picks Vocal Indecency Opponent Kevin J. Martin to Head Commission, Washington Post, March 17, 2005

Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens, Washington Post, March 14, 2005

Names and Money Trail of Right Wing Termites in Mainline Christian Denominations, DailyKos, March 13, 2005

Frank Rich, New York Times , March 13, 2005 writes of the U.S. as

a culture that is now caught in the vise of the government war against "indecency." The chill cast by that war is taking new casualties each day, and with each one, the commissars of censorship are emboldened to extend their reach.

Evangelicals Open Debate on Widening Policy Questions, New York Times, March 11, 2005

Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming, New York Times, March 10, 2005

We're on a Mission From God, Slate, March 9, 2005

What Jesus Wouldn't Do? by Jim Wallis, AlterNet, Posted March 9, 2005

Made-in-America Wahhabism, Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2005

Bankruptcy: The New Women's Issue, Demos, March 8, 2005

The Armageddon Nominee, TomPaine.com, March 7, 2005

Right With God, Evangelical Conservatives Find a Spiritual Home on the Hill, Washington Post, March 6, 2005

Black Churches Struggle Over Their Role in Politics, New York Times, March 6, 2005

The Bush Team's Abortion Misstep, New York Times, March 5, 2005

U.S. Drops Anti-Abortion Demand at Forum, New York Times, March 3, 2005

Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept., New York Times, March 1, 2005

THE COURTS AND GOVERNMENT

GOP Agenda vs. States' Rights, TruthOut, March, 2005

Attack Of The Clones: President Bush And His Religious Right Allies Want To Stack The Supreme Court With Right-Wing Ideologues, Church And State, March, 2005

Bush's hawks moving up -- or out? Boston Globe, March 23, 2005

Fire With Fire: Make The Ten Commandments Law, DailyKos, March 23, 2005

Will Republicans Go Nuclear?, Washington Post, March 22, 2005

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data, Washington Post, March 22, 2005

That Scalia Charm, New York Times, March 21, 2005

Evangelical Children's Novels Push Conversion of 'Spiritually Empty' Jews, The Forward, March 18, 2005

Split Panel Sends Renominated Candidate to Full Senate, New York Times, March 18, 2005

Filibuster Precedent? Democrats Point to '68 and Fortas, Washington Post, March 18, 2005

Three Nominees, Washington Post, March 17, 2005

Senate Democrats Erect Shield to Obstruct "Nuclear Option", LA Times, March 16, 2005

Senate Work May Come to Halt If GOP Bars Judicial Filibusters, Washington Post, March 16, 2005

Democratic Leader Harry Reid's Letter to Bill Frist, Senate Democratic Communication Center, March 15, 2005 (about the "nuclear" option)

They're Back, and Still Unworthy (On Judicial Nominees), New York Times, March 11, 2005

The World According to Bolton, New York Times, March 9, 2005

Supreme Zealotry (Post editorial about Supreme Court Justice Scalia), Washington Post, March 8, 2005

The Senate on the Brink, New York Times, March 7, 2005

Clash on Judicial Nominees Could Spill Into Lawmaking, New York Times, March 7, 2005

Redistricting Rampage, Washington Post, March 7, 2005

10 reasons displays shouldn't be allowed, BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD, March, 2005

Fed's Chief Gives Consumption Tax Cautious Backing, New York Times, March 6, 2005 (predicted in dominionism videotape of October, 2004)

Justices Consider Religious Displays, New York Times, March 3, 2005

Court Considers Government Displays of Ten Commandments, New York Times, March 2, 2005

Battle of Judicial Nominee Resumes, GOP Leaders Eye Action on Filibuster, Washington Post, March 2, 2005

Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes? Alternet, March 1, 2005

A New G.O.P. Tack on a Judicial Nominee, New York Times, March 1, 2005

Debate Resumes on Court Picks, Washington Post, March 1, 2005

FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE

House Votes to Ease Ban on Hiring Bias, New York Times, March 3, 2005

Putting a Brave Faith on GOP 'Compassion', Washington Post, March 3, 2005

Bush Says $2 Billion Went to Religious Charities in '04, New York Times, March 2, 2005

HOMOPHOBIA

Lesbian Candidate Holds Off Foe as Topeka Votes for Gay Rights, New York Times, March 3, 2005

Vote in Topeka Today Hangs on Gay Rights and a Vitriolic Local Protester, New York Times, March 1, 2005