Author: Frederick Clarkson

This past weekend a big conference titled Examining the Agenda of the Religious Far Right was staged in New York. Over 500 people participated including numerous reporters and documentary film makers. Conference participants...

[From the diaries by susanbhu.] The Christian Right has a long and shifty history with white supremacist groups in the U.S. Certainly many do not and never have embraced racism. Others play ball. It turns out that Tony Perkins,...

Progressive religious leaders are increasingly speaking out against the theocratic agenda of the Christian Right. The Interfaith Alliance organized one such speak-out on Monday, in the form of a telephone press conference with...

[promoted by BooMan] If one is a theocrat, one believes that the law is what one’s religious authorities say that it is, and one acts accordingly. One of the leading monarchichal theocracies in the world, is not in the...

All over America people are waking up to the threat posed by the theocratic Christian Right — in their lives, in their communities, in their thinking and in their actions.  As I wrote the other day, the lights are...