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The Rise of the American Theocracy

(updated February 10th, 2005)

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"The Government of the United States of America is not,
in any sense,
founded on the Christian religion..."
—George Washington,
(Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1796)

The Struggle to Make America One Nation, Under (the Christian) God

Black Evangelicals: Bush's New Trump Card, by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Pacific News Service, January 27, 2005
George Bush and Karl Rove hope to bypass black civil rights leadership to make deals with black evangelicals and assure future electoral victory in battleground states.
SpongeBob, Evil Gay Heathen: How sad to be a right-wing Christian in a world full of homo cartoons and scary nipples, by Mark Morford, SF Gate, January 26, 2005
Backers of Gay Marriage Ban Use Social Security as Cudgel, by David D. Kirkpatrick and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, January 25, 2005
A coalition of major conservative Christian groups is threatening to withhold support for President Bush's plans to remake Social Security unless Mr. Bush vigorously champions a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Empire and Militant Christianity: How Americans Were Seduced by War, by Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch, January 18, 2005
Onward the new Christian soldier, by Paul Sheehan, SMH.com [Australia], January 17, 2005
Evangelists who hold the Bible as literal truth are reshaping the face of modern Christianity
Bush’s Reelection Ignites Religious Right: Do God's work by waging war in Iraq, and don't worry about the environment since the "end of days" is near. By Gerald Rellick, Intervention Magazine, January 12, 2005
Marshall sheriff's official Web site airs anti-gay stance, by Thomas Spencer, The Birmingham News, January 12, 2005
Recapturing Kansas, by Emily Udell, In These Times, January 12, 2005
Believers go on rack to prove God relieves pain, by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent for the Times of London, January 12, 2005
"People are to be tortured in laboratories at Oxford University in a United States-funded experiment to determine whether belief in God is effective in relieving pain."
A Nation of Faith and Religious Illiterates , by Stephen Prothero, LA Times, January 12, 2005
Religious right relishes chance to push agenda: Abortion and gay marriage to be targeted as moral crusaders demand election payback, by Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian [UK], November 5, 2004
Two Nations Under God, by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, November 4, 2004
A Grim Study in Red and Blue: What kind of mandate is a win of only 51%?, Margaret Carlson, LA Times, November 4, 2004
Bush's born-again moral majority makes all the difference, by Alex Massie, The Scotsman [UK], November 4, 2004
Bush Re-Election Means More Attacks On Church-State Wall, Says Americans United: Culture War May 'Go Nuclear,' Says Watchdog Group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, November 3, 2004
A Bench Tilting Right, by Cass R. Sunstein and David Schkade, Washington Post, October 30, 2004
Imagining America if George Bush Chose the Supreme Court, by Adam Cohen, New York Times, October 18, 2004
Vote and Be Damned, by Maureen Dowd, New York Times, October 17, 2004
An unhealthy marriage, San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 2004
Programs that blur the line between religion and politics have no place in our system of government.
This is the lowest blow, The Capital Times, September 28, 2004
"The Republican National Committee has acknowledged sending mass mailings to voters in at least two states that suggest Democrats would, if elected in 2004, ban the Bible."
Falwell's Dangerous Law School, by Robert Paul Reyes, The Washington Dispatch, September 27, 2004
- Liberty University Law School
Some Christians complain, but the government leaves Halloween alone, by Brian Gottstein, ROANOKE.COM, September 22, 2004
GOP Mailing Warns Liberals Will Ban Bibles, by Will Lester, Associated Press, Sep 17, 2004
"Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November."
How would Jesus vote? Keyes can't presume to know, by Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-times, September 10, 2004
"Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved," Alan Keyes said at a press conference earlier this week.
Bush agenda in hands of religious right, by Linda Valdez, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 8, 2004
A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals, by Michael Hout and Andrew M. Greeley, New York Times, September 4, 2004
CHRISTIAN THEMES UNDERLIE CONVENTION SHOW, by Georgie Anne Geyer, Yahoo News, Sep 1, 2004
OP-ED The Republican God???, by Thomas McCay, C.S./S.I., September 01, 2004
Holding the Pentagon Accountable: For Religious Bigotry, New York Times, August 26, 2004
Bush 'Faith-Based' Agenda Spreading In Federal Government, Report Finds, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, August 17, 2004
Aggressive advocacy by this administration of a right-wing Christian agenda has adversely affected civil liberties for all Americans, rights for women, rights for gays, freedom of speech, stem cell research, and privacy
Holy Terror: Religion isn't the solution -- it's the problem, LA Times, August 15, 2004
Top evangelicals await invitation to convention: Republicans seen as playing down polarizing figures, The Associated Press, Aug. 12, 2004
Churches See an Election Role and Spread the Word on Bush, by David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, August 9, 2004
Bush's Band of Brothers: Karl Rove is counting on the more than 4 million evangelical Christian voters that didn't turn out in 2000 to put Bush over the top this year. Will a revivified Promise Keepers movement help drive voters to the polls? By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet, August 9, 2004
Clergy Should Skip Falwell's Tax Law Class: TV Preacher Lost Tax Exemption, Paid $50,000 In Back Taxes For Illegal Politicking, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, August 5, 2004
Republicans look to Amish for support: A search for every vote, CNN, August 5, 2004
Bush appeals to Catholic voters: President raises money for GOP, by Jill Dougherty, CNN, August 3, 2004
House Vote Doesn't Only Threaten Gays, by Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 26, 2004
Arkansas Church's Partisan Politicking Needs Irs Investigation, Says AU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, July 21, 2004
Church-state line blurs leading up to election, ChurchCentral.com, 12 Jul 2004
The Politics of Piety: Are Kerry's expressions of faith subpar? The Republicans would have the electorate think so., by Rick Perlstein for the LA Times, July 11th, 2004
Bush Campaign Targets Churches For Election Outreach, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Thursday July 1, 2004
Phila. Church That Endorsed Bush Gets $1 Million 'Faith-Based' Grant, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 23, 2004
Bush, Baptists: A common cause: Gay marriage, abortion, cloning strike a familiar chord, by Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, June 16, 2004
Americans United Opposes Federal Security Subsidies For Houses Of Worship, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 16, 2004
House Committee Scuttles Plan To Allow Church Electioneering, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 15, 2004
Americans United Blasts Back-Door Congressional Scheme To Recruit Churches Into Partisan Politics, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 8, 2004
Bush Campaign Attempting To Forge Church-Based Political Machine, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 2, 2004
The Jesus Landing Pad, by Rick Perlstein, May 18th, 2004 Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
On Ten Commandments bill, Christian Right has it wrong, by Frederick Clarkson, Christian Science Monitor, April 21, 2004
God Made Me Do It, Robert Dreyfuss discusses further the relationship of Tim LaHaye and President Bush, April 18, 2004
The Evangelical Roots of American Unilateralism: The Christian Right's Influence and How to Counter It, By Duane Oldfield, March, 2004
'On a Mission From God': The Religious Right and the Emerging American Theocracy, by Maureen Farrell, March 9th, 2004
Reverend Doomsday: According to Tim LaHaye, the Apocalypse is now, by Robert Dreyfuss for Rolling Stone, January 28, 2004
Americans United Files Request For Public Records On New 'Faith-Based' Prison In Florida, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, January 12, 2004
TV Preacher Robertson Says Bush Victory Is Divinely Foreordained, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, January 6, 2004
Of God, and Man, in the Oval Office, by Fritz Ritsch, Washington Post, March 2, 2003
Jesus Plus Nothing, Harper's Magazine, March 2003
Vast, Right-Wing Cabal? Meet the Most Powerful Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of, by Marc J. Ambinder, ABC News, May 2, 2002
DeLay Criticized for 'Only Christianity' Remarks, by Alan Cooperman, Washington Post, April 20, 2002
Changes to Bush Faith-Based Bill Make Government-Funded Discrimination More Likely, ACLU, June 28th, 2001
President Bush Announces Religious Agenda on Inauguration Day: Bush Presents Himself as 'Determined Foe of Church-State' Separation, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, January 20, 2001
Invitation to a Stoning: Getting cozy with theocrats, by Walter Olson, REASON, November 1998
Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence, by Frederick Clarkson, The Public Eye Magazine, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1 & 2, March/June 1994

Intelligent Design vs. The Satanic Cult of Evolution

Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes, by Cornelia Dean, New York Times, February 1, 2005
US school in eye of creationist storm, by Julian Borger, The Guardian [UK], January 13, 2005

School Vouchers: Affirmative Action for Christians

Florida Appeals Court Rules Against School Voucher Law, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, August 16, 2004
Americans United Hails Colorado Supreme Court Ruling Against School Vouchers, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, June 28, 2004
Americans United Blasts House For Approving D.C. School Voucher Scheme, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, December 9, 2003

Sex Education

Teen Sex Reality, LA Times, October 23rd, 2004

Abortion and Birth Control Issues

Birth Control Too?, LA Times, January 28th, 2005
Only 40 years ago, within the memory of millions of Americans, birth control could not be legally sold in some states, even to married couples. If President Bush and his allies in Congress are successful, the future could look much like that past.
Rape victims twice, Seattle Post Intelligencer, January 12, 2005,br>Women's rights advocates suspect that the Bush administration is under the sway of conservative religious forces, whose sentiments are represented by Dr. George Isajiwa, board member of Physicians for Life, a Philadelphia anti-abortion group, who said that by giving emergency contraception, "You're giving a dangerous drug that's not doing any good, or else you're causing an abortion. As a moral principle, a woman has the right to defend herself against an aggressor. But she doesn't have the right to kill the baby."
Bush's abortion evasion, Boston Globe, October 15, 2004
Bush Withholds Money for U.N. Family Planning Fund, Reuters, Oct 1, 6:56 PM ET
Judge: Abortion Ban Unconstitutional, The Associated Press, September 8, 2004
Lift the family planning gag, by Marty Meehan and Gloria Feldt, Boston Globe, August 12, 2004
Bush Administration Announces Decision to Withhold Funding from UN Health Program; UNFPA Loses Funding Appropriated by Congress in 2003, 7/16/2004
Bush Administration Again Withholds UNFPA Money Due to Abortion Link, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, July 16, 2004
Rounds urged Planned Parenthood Web link cut, Associated Press, July 12, 2004
The Bush Global Gag Rule: Endangering Women’s Health, Free Speech and Democracy, Center for Reproductive Rights, July 2003
'Sanctity of Life' is Bush Theme on Roe Anniversary; Attention Drawn to Abortion Issue 29 Years After Landmark Ruling, by Harriet Chiang, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2002
Bush Administration Ignoring Adolescents' Health Needs In Favor of Restrictive Policies: Statement of Katherine Hall Martinez, Director of the Center's International Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights, August 30, 2001
Administration Restricts Medicaid Coverage of RU-486, Almanac of Policy Issues, March 30, 2001
Bush Reveals Opposition to Mifepristone, Feminist Daily News Wire, January 21, 2000

Promoting a Culture of Life, except for those on Death Row

Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: The Death Penalty and the True Measure of George Bush's Character, By LESLEY BRILL, CounterPunch, October 16/17, 2004
Death penalty for juveniles is acceptable, Bowling Green Daily News, October 16, 2004

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