Author: Frederick Clarkson

All week, the Judges at FrederickClarkson.com have toiled, sometimese late into the night, to find that certain someone who meets the High Standards of Theocrat of the Week.  We were, as always, richly blessed with...

In April, some will recall that there was a major conference in New York called Examining the Agenda of the Religious Far Right.  Z Magazine has just published an article about the conference titled “Taking on the...

Hate crimes and violence in America go on all the time. The latest outrage is directed against a Virginia congregation of the United Church of Christ — whose General Synod endorsed gay marriage this week.  Here is a...

When I published Eternal Hostility:  The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy in 1997, some thought using the word “theocracy” was a bit out there.   Times have changed, and the word has entered...

It comes as no surprise that the Washington, DC-based Christian Right lobby — Family Research Council (FRC) has a difficult time respecting other people’s religious traditions.  It was the FRC that declared that...