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The Public Eye, Winter 2006

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Tax Revolt as a Family Value How the Christian Right is Becoming a Free Market Champion

“Death Should Not Be a Taxable Event.” In August of 2005, this headline appeared on the website of the conservative evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family. The accompanying article asked Focus members to persuade their Senators to…

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Tearing Down the Towers

The Right's Vision of an America Without Cities

The formula that emerged from the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections was provocative: the less dense the population, the more likely it was to vote Republican. Republicans appeared to have lost the cities and inner suburbs, positioning themselves…

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Whither the Christian Right?

How Religious Conservatives Succeeded and Failed in the 2006 Elections

It was a scant five weeks until the 2006 midterm elections, and photogenic Christian Right leader Tony Perkins gripped the podium and smiled confidently at the 1700 activists gathered at the Values Voters Summit. Perkins predicted that his new…

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