Religious Right Watch

Sarah Palin's VP gaffe

Chris Rhodda offers an interesting and informed perspective on Gov. Sarah Palin's "role of the Vice-President" gaffe.

Two bloggers join the discussion on the religious right

The topic of the religious right was the starting point for two bloggers recently who do not regularly mention the religious right.

DistributorcapNY offers, "Saint Sarah, the one of the Dominion Order."

And Justin Erik Halldór Smith of 3quarksdaily offers, "Notes On The Religious Right."

"Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?"

Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy For God -- How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back wonders "Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?" He suspects that "Palin doesn't actually believe the rehearsed smears she's telling about Obama, but she does believe that she is morally right in lying."

Palin's Party: The Christian Right's New Star

From Michelle Goldberg:

Sarah Palin's nomination is an unparalleled triumph for the movement I wrote about in Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. While George W. Bush provided the Christian right more power, access and political sympathy than it had ever enjoyed before, he was not, like Palin, a pure product of the movement. As I found when I went to Wasilla earlier this month, Palin owes her career to the grassroots stealth strategy that the religious right adopted in the 1990s.

You can read Goldberg's reporting on Palin in The Nation and The Guardian.

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