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Far Right Stands Behind Bush in Stem Cell Veto 06/21/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff When President Bush again vetoed funding for embryonic stem-cell research, he did more than earn praise from the Religious Right – he invited them to the veto ceremony. …

Religious Right Hopes African Americans Will Help Defeat Hate Crimes Bill 06/21/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff Bishop Harry Jackson’s High Impact Leadership Coalition ran an ad in the D.C. newspaper Roll Call last week to oppose the Hate Crimes Prevention …

Romney Names High-Profile Supporters to Religious-Right Committee 06/18/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff Mitt Romney has been aggressively courting the Religious Right for months, slowly recruiting supporters from among the cadre of full-time activists. …

Taking Lead from Religious Right, Justice Dept. Civil Rights Focused on Religion, Not Race 06/14/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff In February, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled what he called the First Freedom Project , to expand on the Justice …

Disenfranchisement Strategy at Heart of Modern Right Wing 06/08/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff As Eric Rauchway noted in the New Republic Online this week, the Right’s myth of rampant voter fraud persists in spite of the facts of its near-nonexistence: …

Wallis: Focus Admits Gays Not the Problem with American Families -- Just a Fundraising Canard 06/05/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff In an interview with Powell’s book store, Sojourners founder and liberal Evangelical activist Jim Wallis spoke of trying to …

Religious Right's Abstinence-Only Agenda on the World Stage 06/05/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee indicated last week that Congress will reevaluate a controversial provision in Bush’s initiative to combat …

First Amendment Protection Only For Those Who Believe 06/04/2007 by Kyle Mantyla After a lengthy legal battle, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools’ “policy for distributing fliers by …

Norquist Knocks Dobson: 'Self-Appointed Leaders' Don't Move Votes 05/31/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff Rolling Stone blogger Tim Dickinson recently talked to Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist about the right-wing credentials of the …

GOP's Preacher Candidate Politicizes Effort to Depoliticize Church 05/22/2007 by Right Wing Watch Staff Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has withdrawn from an effort to disentangle Baptists from partisan politics – citing politics. …