Religious Right Today, Tomorrow, Forever?

No matter what you might have read in the mainstream press, no matter what you've heard, no matter what you've hoped for, these are not the end times for the Religious Right.

Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash, March 14, 2011

Before there was Google, there was the modern-day Religious Right. Before YouTube videos, Facebook, My Space, and tweets, there was the Religious Right. Before e-books, Wi-Fi, and Podcasts there was the Religious Right. Before IPods, IPads, and IPhone Apps, there was the Religious Right. And it is likely, as each of these late-twentieth/early twenty-first century marvels (read life's bare essentialsJ) morph into something even more social networky and more amazingly gadgety there will be the Religious Right. Despite the predilection of its leaders and organizations to be deeply suspicions of and express disdain for modernity, the Religious Right has done one heck-of-a-job adapting to, harnessing and working with much of the above phenomena.

Many of those who witnessed the rise of the Religious Right over the past thirty-plus years posited that the election of a Democratic Party-controlled Congress in 2006 followed by the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, the deaths (the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Coral Ridge Ministry's Dr. James Kennedy), illnesses and retirements (Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson, the American Family Association's Donald Wildmon) of key Religious Right leaders in recent years, and the rise of the Tea Party movement, were all signs of a political movement that perhaps had reached its end times.

In defeat or in victory, however, the Religious Right has established the kind of enduring institutions, political relationships, and financial firepower to survive hard times, and take full advantage of the good times.

Given that the Religious Right has played such a major role in the nation's politics for quite some time, what are its prospects for sustaining that role?[More http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12489]

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