Religious Right Makes Bid for Tea Party Activists
As the populist influence of the religious right finds itself eclipsed by the vitriol of the Tea Party movement, religious right leaders are courting the Tea Partiers, seeking to introduce their notions of America as a “Godly nation” into the neo-libertarian ideology of the Tea Partiers.
I first saw the seeds of this phenomenon sown on the eve of the 9/11 march on Washington, when religious right co-founder Richard Viguerie offered a free organizing seminar to Tea Party activists. Just weeks later, at the Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council, Tea Party leaders were featured on the agenda, even as FRC tried to damage-control the newcomers’ racist image.
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