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Of piety & partisanship: at the 2009 Values Voter Summit, Religious Right leaders plot their return from the political wilderness.		Oct 1, 2009	2934
Green light in the bluegrass state: appeals court gives taxpayers the right to challenge 'faith-based' funding of Baptist youth agency in Kentucky.		Oct 1, 2009	1848
Behind the green door: Congressional sex scandals Shine spotlight on 'The Family'--the most powerful religious right group you've never heard of.		Sep 1, 2009	2950
Return of the dubious dou: religious right has-beens Ralph Reed and Randall Terry are trying for a resurrection.		Sep 1, 2009	2320
Texas tall tale: religious right cowboy David Barton's fixin' to rewrite the social studies textbooks in the lone star state (and maybe your state too).	Cover story	Jul 1, 2009	3007
Levitating over the church-state wall? Hollywood celebrities, ex-Beatles join forces to push transcendental meditation in public schools.	Cover story	Jun 1, 2009	2286
The TM trip: Yogi bears Hindu-based faith to America.		Jun 1, 2009	655
'Home run' justice: high court member's church-state batting average was out of this world, says Americans United.		Jun 1, 2009	1355
Special delivery: letters from AU's legal department solve church-state problems in public schools without going to court.		May 1, 2009	1775
Power struggle: with James Dobson inching toward retirement and others off the scene, many wonder who will fill the religious right's bully pulpit.		May 1, 2009	3744
Touchdown at the Supreme Court! Handing a victory to Americans United, justices skip New Jersey legal contest over football coach's prayer promotion.		Apr 1, 2009	1741
High court commandment: Utah City may reject 'Seven Aphorisms' monument, justices say.		Apr 1, 2009	1355
States of strife: seeking new fronts in the 'culture war,' the religious right is turning its focus to state legislatures.		Mar 1, 2009	1378
School voucher volley: frustrated by a lukewarm reception from Congress, advocates of tax aid to religious schools pass collection plates in the states.		Mar 1, 2009	1733
Capitol crime: religious right spreads lies about new Congressional Visitor Center.		Feb 1, 2009	1870
Church, state and president Obama: with '9 in '09' project, Americans United presses new administration to repair Bush damage to church-state wall.		Jan 1, 2009	2720
Obama and the religious right: hardliners are blasting the new administration, but some evangelicals want dialogue.		Jan 1, 2009	652
Election 2008: the faith factor: religious right leaders are 'grieving' over election outcome while gearing up for next round of 'culture war' battles.		Dec 1, 2008	2137
Checkmating church politicking: Americans United battles a bishop and religious right pawns over pulpit partisanship.		Dec 1, 2008	1508
Pulpit plot thickens: Americans United files seven complaints with the IRS, after churches endorse political candidates in religious right election scheme.		Nov 1, 2008	3375
Inside the Values Voter Summit: Religious Right activists serve up rancid rhetoric, partisan posturing and even a racist waffle mix at 'pro-family' confab.	Cover story	Oct 1, 2008	3202
The Religious Right top ten: right-wing religious forces have money, influence and power--and they're seeking more.		Oct 1, 2008	4070
'Faith-based' flare up: government aid to social service ministries becomes hot topic in presidential campaign.		Sep 1, 2008	1966
License to discriminate? Americans United lawsuit says South Carolina's 'I Believe' license plate favors Christianity over other faiths.		Jul 1, 2008	1779
Controversial clerics: a parade of partisan preachers roils presidential campaign--and raises questions about the relationship between religion and politics.		Jul 1, 2008	2053
Federal appeals court blows the whistle on New Jersey football coach's prayer play.		Jun 1, 2008	2397
Religious Right groups want pastors to 'cross the line' on church politicking--and spark a court showdown.		Jun 1, 2008	1331
Nationwide 'First Freedom First' theater simulcast brings together celebrities, citizen activists to promote church-state separation.	Cover story	May 1, 2008	1819
Church-state champions discuss personal bottles to defend individual rights.	Brief article	May 1, 2008	1930
Egregious earmakrs? Americans United says congressional aid to religious groups is tone-deaf to the commands of the constitution.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2008	2288
Religious right about-face: activists Frank Schaeffer, John Whitehead and Cal Thomas have repudiated the theocratic movement they once led. Here's why.		Mar 1, 2008	2363
Presidential candidates are professing their faith--and plundering the pews--in an unprecedented altar call for votes.		Feb 1, 2008	2977
'First freedom first' offers 10 church-state questions to ask the candidates.		Feb 1, 2008	684
60 years of controversy: what the Supreme Court has ruled on religion in public schools--and why.		Feb 1, 2008	1855
Iowa senator's inquiry into mega-church millions sparks church-state showdown.		Jan 1, 2008	2795
Is there a 'War On Christmas'? Religions right holiday campaign raises money and members by distorting reality.		Dec 1, 2007	2844
Party poopers? James Dobson, religious right allies threaten to dump GOP if presidential nominee fails 'family values' test.		Nov 1, 2007	2922
A House divided: religious right leaders wrangle at 'values voter summit' over 2008 election strategy.	Cover story	Nov 1, 2007	3309
Round rock rumble: Americans United lawsuit challenges 'majority-rules' prayer at Texas school district graduations.		Oct 1, 2007	1447
Public schools under fire: religious right pressure groups target public school children for conversion using an array of new tactics.		Oct 1, 2007	3166
Fact, not fantasy: the real story of the Supreme Court's school prayer rulings.		Oct 1, 2007	1684
Inquisition 2008: presidential candidates are being grilled on their prayers, their sins and their beliefs about doctrine--and some of them don't seem to mind.		Sep 1, 2007	3013
The religious right after Falwell: fundamentalist political movement is less visible but more powerful than ever.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2007	1683
Standing down: Supreme Court narrowly makes it harder to bring taxpayer challenges to Bush 'faith-based' crusade.		Jul 1, 2007	1216
Pentacle quest success! Bush administration approves Wiccan symbol for use on memorial markers of fallen service personnel.	Cover story	Jun 1, 2007	2183
Battling bias: effort to inject religions discrimination into head start fails in House of Representatives.		Jun 1, 2007	2671
Invocation confrontation: North Carolina citizens file lawsuit challenging sectarian prayers at county commissioners' meetings.	Cover story	May 1, 2007	2445
Civil religion uncivil strife: prayer at governmental meetings has often provoked rancorous debate about the relationship between church and state in America.		May 1, 2007	1236
Is the religious right dead? Hardly, say church-state experts, as GOP presidential candidates pray for the Fundamentalist Movement's blessing.		Apr 1, 2007	3065
States of emergency: avalanche of bad bills threatens church-state separation in legislature across America.		Mar 1, 2007	2450
Hour of decision: Supreme Court will decide whether taxpayers can challenge President Bush's 'faith-based' crusade.		Feb 1, 2007	2420
Everson at 60: six decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the most important church-state decision you never heard of--and kicked off the culture wars that reverberate today.	Cover story	Jan 1, 2007	3561
Loss of faith: ex-White House staffer David Kuo's book exposes the many sins of the Bush 'faith-based' initiative.		Dec 1, 2006	2578
Right-wing meltdown: Religious Right church politicking scheme fails, as many of the movement's allies go down to defeat in the election.		Dec 1, 2006	1632
Inside the Values Voter Summit: a disturbing drama of dogma, deception and demonization at the religious right's Washington conference.	Cover story	Nov 1, 2006	3708
Toxic talk: speakers at Religious Right's 'Values Voter Summit' spew radical rhetoric.		Nov 1, 2006	640
Is the Antichrist gay? Stretching scripture at the 'Values Voter Summit'.		Nov 1, 2006	627
First freedom first: Americans United cosponsors petition drive to build Nationwide support for church-state separation.		Oct 1, 2006	2234
Churches, politics and the IRS: right-wing clergy and their politician allies are trying to build illegal church-based political machines in Ohio and other States, but this year the federal tax agency seems ready to stop them.		Sep 1, 2006	2713
Project Fair Play: Americans United escalates campaign to educate houses of worship about federal tax law and partisan politics.		Sep 1, 2006	1145
Victory in Iowa: Americans United wins sweeping federal court ruling against 'faith-based' funding for InnerChange prison ministry.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2006	2802
The religious right and American freedom: fundamentalist christian forces seek 'dominion' over the lives of all Americans, and they just might be near the political clout to pull it off.		Jun 1, 2006	4624
Religious right power brokers: the top ten.		Jun 1, 2006	3852
Breaking the Opus Dei code: the secretive Catholic group's name means 'Work Of God,' but in Washington, D.C., that divine task has a decidedly political bent.	Cover story	May 1, 2006	4452
Render unto Caesar ... IRS Commissioner tells tax-exempt churches: thou shalt not electioneer.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2006	2650
Rick Santorum's Amen corner: Pennsylvania Pastors Network spotlights incumbent Republican senator while building church-based political machine.		Apr 1, 2006	3251
Wheel of misfortune: religious right leaders are praying that the Jack Abramoff casino-lobbying scandal won't make them big-time losers.		Mar 1, 2006	3278
Victory in Dover! Federal Court unmasks the Genesis of 'intelligent design'--and the lies that helped bring it into Pennsylvania public schools.		Feb 1, 2006	3137
The 'intelligent design' decision: America's Newspapers Speak Out: newspapers across America commented on U.S District Court Judge John E. Jones' ruling in the Dover, Pa., 'intelligent design' controversy. Here are excerpts from some of those editorials.	Excerpt	Feb 1, 2006	1305
California schemin': an El Tejon soccer coach tried to smuggle creationism into her 'philosophy' classroom, but alert local parents blew the whistle.		Feb 1, 2006	2233
Church-state collision in Congress? With elections looming and the religious right restive, Americans United's Legislative Department is gearing up for a rough ride on Capitol Hill.		Jan 1, 2006	2275
Iowa inmate indoctrination on trial: Americans United challenges taxpayer-funded program that immerses inmates in fundamentalism and scorns other faiths, gays, women's equality.		Dec 1, 2005	2578
Biohazard: 'intelligent design' poses threat to science education and church-state separation, say parents and experts at Pennsylvania trial.		Nov 1, 2005	2986
God's hit man? Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson Calls For United States To 'Take Out' Venezuelan President.		Oct 1, 2005	3103
Behind the smile: Bush Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has an alarming record on church and state and should not be confirmed, says Americans United.	Cover Story	Sep 1, 2005	3080
Prayer offensive? Pat Robertson seeks divine intervention in remaking Supreme Court, as religious right presses for Roberts confirmation.		Sep 1, 2005	1298
Religious right roundup: Texas governor holds bill signing at Fort Worth church school in bid to corral evangelical voters.		Jul 1, 2005	1710
Decalogue divide: in a bitter split, the Supreme Court strikes down one commandments display, while upholding another.		Jul 1, 2005	2246
Kingdom of heaven? Fundamentalist Christian Crusade at Air Force Academy Sparks Official Military Investigation.		Jun 1, 2005	2514
Judge grudge: religious right rabble-rousers are preaching impeachment to try to force courts to rule their way.		May 1, 2005	2405
The French mis-connection: why President George W. Bush and the religious right have no business quoting Alexis de Tocqueville.		May 1, 2005	2189
Nine justices, Ten Commandments, 2 important cases: church-state separation hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court debates Decalogue displays.	Cover Story	Apr 1, 2005	3210
Battling bias: Americans United challenges 'faith-based' job discrimination at federally funded program in Pennsylvania.		Apr 1, 2005	2073
Attack of the clones: President Bush and his Religious Right allies want to stack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues.		Mar 1, 2005	3901
Chief justice Scalia? Rehnquist illness sparks rumors.		Mar 1, 2005	709
Science test: Pa. school district's 'intelligent design' policy violates church-state separation, says Americans United Lawsuit.		Feb 1, 2005	3068
Power play: resurgent religious right ready to push theocratic agenda in upcoming congress.	Cover Story	Jan 1, 2005	1541
Faith-based frenzy: religious right wish list for Congress includes church funding, court stripping, a federal marriage amendment and more.		Jan 1, 2005	3046
The religious right and election 2004: religious right leaders exaggerate their role at the polls in a bid to win more power in Washington, D.C.		Dec 1, 2004	3255
Commandments controversy: with a boost from a Jerry Falwell legal group, The Conflict Over Government-Sponsored Commandments Displays has arrived at the Supreme Court.		Dec 1, 2004	2633
Inside the Christian Coalition: religious right group finds Americans united obstacles blocking its 'Road to Victory'.	Cover Story	Nov 1, 2004	3891
Naked power grab: Christian Coalition plots to strip federal courts of their authority to hear church-state cases.		Nov 1, 2004	779
Culture war casualties: Republicans, Democrats target churches for Partisan politics, as election '04 nears the end.		Oct 1, 2004	2228
Politics in the pulpit: what would Jefferson do?		Oct 1, 2004	687
Behind closed doors: who is the council for national policy and what are they up to? And why don't they want you to know?	Cover Story	Oct 1, 2004	3673
Church service or campaign commercial? Partisan production at Southern Baptist congregation in Arkansas raises federal tax law questions.		Sep 1, 2004	1391
Targeting public schools: Religious Right groups are trying a back-door plan to evangelize public school students.		Sep 1, 2004	2147
NE nation kept in suspense: Supreme Court ducks ruling on 'under God' in public school pledge recitations.		Jul 1, 2004	1939
From the pews to the polls? Bush campaign's plan to get 'friendly' with congregations sparks controversy, as U.S. house debates church politicking change.		Jul 1, 2004	2120
The Alliance Defense Fund's hidden agenda: how a TV preachers' front group is bankrolling the legal crusade to block same-sex marriage--and wed church and state--in America.		Jun 1, 2004	3726