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Focus Welcomes Goeglein, Says His Sins Are Forgiven 01/29/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Earlier this week we noted that Focus on the Family had hired the Bush Administration's former chief liaison to Religious Right group, Tim Goeglein, who was forced to step down …

NAE Begins Search of Cizik’s Replacement 01/28/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Last month, Richard Cizik, Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, resigned from his position after telling NPR, among other things , that his …

Perry Woos the Right With State Address 01/28/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Given that Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison seems intent on challenging Republican Governor Rick Perry next year, it looks like Perry is getting a head start on sewing up right-wing …

Does This Make It a Pattern? 01/26/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Last week I wrote a post noting that, in the days following Barack Obama’s Inauguration speech in which he mentioned that there were “nonbelievers” in this country, a few right-wing news outlets and …

Right Wing Leftovers 01/26/2009 by Kyle Mantyla How cool is Facebook?  So cool that even the hipsters over at the American Family Association now have their own page . John Hagee writes that he is praying "fervently for [Barack Obama's] success" and calls …

Focus Gets Former Bush Administration Loyalist, Plagiarist 01/26/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Via the Colorado Independent , we find out that Timothy Goeglein, the Bush Administration’s liason to the Religious Right, has landed a new gig as chief lobbyist for …

It's Going to be a Long Four Years 01/22/2009 by Kyle Mantyla It was just last week that I noted that the prospect of passing hate crimes legislation was making various Religious Right leaders even crazier than normal and among those I cited as evidence …

Happy Gary Bauer Day 01/22/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Today is the annual March for Life, held every year on January 22 to protest abortion and press for the overturning of Roe v. Wade . As such, Religious Right groups are doing what they do every year, with …

The Right Gets Spooked By the Specter of Nonbelievers 01/22/2009 by Kyle Mantyla In his Inauguration Address , President Obama acknowledged that "we are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers."  I didn't think much of it at …

The Right Declares "We're Not Dead Yet" 01/21/2009 by Kyle Mantyla For those tempted to write off the Religious Right as moribund in light of back-to-back devastating defeats of Republicans in the last two elections and the rise of Barack Obama, keep in …