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Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do About It

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by Faircloth, Sean


  atheism (defined), 113–115

  Atheist Alliance America, 142

  Australia, 137

  Axelrod, Julius, 143–144

  Ayotte, Kelly, 93

  Bachmann, Michele, 78, 93, 103

  Baez, Joan, 72

  Barry, Dave, 109

  Bartlett, Roscoe, 93

  Bass, Charlie, 107

  Beat the Clock, 144

  Beatles, 78–79, 88, 146

  Beck, Glenn, 99, 101, 120

  Bentsen, Lloyd, 121

  Berlin Wall speech, 72–73

  bestiality, 96

  Bible

  as campaign guide, 97

  and child discipline, 63

  The Children’s Bible, 23

  and corporal punishment, 63

  and homosexuality, 38

  and Jim Inhofe, 98

  and the Koran, 38

  and sexual inequality, 67–68

  and women, 36

  Year of the Bible, 94

  bin Laden, Osama, 38

  Blaine, James G., 148

  Blair, Tony, 12

  Blunt, Roy, 93–94

  Boehner, John, 94

  Bolder County, Colorado, 53

  Borat, 79

  Boy Scouts of America, 51–52

  Bragg, Raymond, 150

  Brando, Marlon, 143

  Brandon, Tom, 105

  Breathed, Berkeley, 109

  Brennan, William, 37, 142–143

  Bright, Bill, 44

  Bright-Sided, 82

  Broun, Paul, 84

  Brunsman, August, 153

  Bryan, William Jennings, 16, 94

  Bryson, Bill, 109

  Buckner, Ed, 151

  Buerkle, Ann Marie, 94

  Buffett, Warren, 20, 52, 88, 109, 117, 150

  Bush, George H. W., 46, 108

  Bush, George W.

  and faith-based initiatives, 49, 58

  and fundamentalism, 111

  and the global “gag rule,” 46

  and God’s will, 23

  and Iraq War, 11–12, 44, 87, 112, 153

  and National Day of Prayer, 33

  Byrne, Gabriel, 109

  C Street, 79–80, 90, 95, 98, 101, 104

  Camp Quest, 153

  Campus Crusade for Christ, 44, 153

  Canada, 137

  Cantor, Eric, 94

  Carnegie, Andrew, 36

  Caro, Robert, 107

  Carter, Jimmy, 128, 139

  Caslen, Robert, 44

  Catholic Church and Catholics, 9, 17–18, 62, 67, 149–150

  Center for Moral Clarity, 102

  chaplainships, 33, 34, 44–45

  Chapman, Graham, 142

  Charlotte’s Web, 145

  Chemerinsky, Erwin, 84

  Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA), 59

  Child Care Development Block Grants, 58

  child neglect, 95

  child-care centers

  in Alabama, 24, 56

  and federal funds, 58

  in Florida, 57

  secular vs. religious, 24, 56–58

  and sexual assault, 57

  child-protection law, 11, 25

  Chinese Cultural Revolution, 90

  Chirac, Jacques, 11, 112

  Chivers, Meredith, 70

  Christian Embassy, 44

  Christian Exodus, 106

  Christian Heritage Week, 99

  Christian Scientists, 59

  Christina, Greta, 74

  Church of England, 9

  church and state, separation of

  and civil liberties, 31

  and education, 55

  and the First Amendment, 9, 10, 31

  historical perspective, 28, 92

  Jefferson on, 10, 20, 23, 28, 31, 33–35, 54, 103, 139

  Kennedy on, 37, 112

  and the law, 25, 26, 43

  Madison on, 9, 20, 28, 33–35, 103

  and nonfundamentalists, 41, 132, 139

  Paul (Ron) on, 100

  Religious Right and, 28, 31, 64, 107

  Rubio on, 103

  and the Secular Coalition for America, 20, 109, 127

  and taxes, 48

  Citizens United, 127

  Clark, William, 133

  Clinton, Bill, 46

  Clooney, George, 109

  Coats, Dan, 95

  Coburn, Tom, 95

  Coe, Doug, 90, 98

  Colbert, Stephen, 106

  College of Charleston, 148

  Communism, 72–73, 115

  Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act, 46

  Comstock Act, 68–69

  Comstock, Anthony, 68–70

  consent, adult, 69, 73

  conservative, true meaning of, 10

  Constitution Party, 100

  contraceptives, 99

  Contract with America, 90

  Cornwell, R. Elisabeth, 70–71

  Corps of Discovery, 133

  Corynyn, John, 95

  Council for Secular Humanism, 137, 151–152

  Cousens, Bonnie, 151

  Crank, Jessica, 11, 25, 140

  creationism, 17, 28, 83–84, 103, 130

  Crick, Francis, 87

  Criswell, W.A., 32

  Crystal Cathedral, 81

  Cuomo, Mario, 17

  Curie, Marie, 86–87, 89, 146

  Daily, Thomas, 62

  Darrow, Clarence, 16–17, 29, 36, 126, 132

  Darwin, Charles, 17, 40, 79, 126, 146

  death-with-dignity laws, 55

  Declaration of Independence, 32

  Defense of Marriage Act, 52, 104

  DeMint, Jim, 95, 100

  Denmark, 137–139

  Dhuhulow, Aisho Ibrahim, 9

  DiFranco, Ani, 109

  Dirksen, Everett, 107

  discipline, child, 63

  discrimination

  and Boy Scouts of America, 51

  in military, 42

  and religious groups, 27

  and schools, 37, 50, 61

  and sex-based, 18, 99, 103, 104

  Dobson, James, 63

  Douglas, Paul, 107

  Draper, Don, 65, 72–74

  Dreir, David, 96

  Drummond, Henry, 16

  Dworkin, Andrea, 71

  Dylan, Bob, 72

  Dynasty, 65

  Eagle Forum, 98

  Edison, Thomas, 36, 87–88, 89

  Ehrenreich, Barbara, 82, 109

  Einstein, Albert, 40, 86, 126, 132, 136, 146, 149–150

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 55

  Ellison, Keith, 93, 106

  Ellmers, Renee, 96

  Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), 93–94

  Enlightenment, 9, 13, 35, 38, 54, 101, 118, 140, 153

  Ensign, John, 70, 80

  Enzi, Mike, 96

  Epistle of James, 25, 59

  Epstein, Brian, 78

  Equal Rights Amendment, 97

  equality, sexual, 66–67

  Ethical Culture Societies, 149

  Ethiopia, 11, 46

  Evangelical Protestantism, 111

  evolution, 40, 54, 92–93, 102, 146

  Facebook, 32, 74, 122, 125, 132

  faith, depiction in the media, 27–28

  Faith Assembly, 60

  faith-based initiatives, 34, 49–50, 104

  faith healers, 95, 140

  faith-healing, 10, 25, 59–61

  Falwell, Jerry, 111, 152

  Family Research Council, 99

  Fellowship Foundation, 95

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), 44

  Fieldston School, 149

  Finland, 137

  First Amendment, 9, 10, 31, 103

  Flynn, Tom, 152

  Focus on the Family, 63, 123, 129

  Ford, Gerald, 111, 121

  Foster, Jodie, 109

  Fourteenth Amendment, 93

  France, 13

  Franklin, Ben, 35, 87–89

  Free Inquiry, 152

  freethink
ers, 36, 148–149, 152

  Freethinkers (book), 14, 127

  Furer, Brent, 105

  “gag rule,” global, 46–47

  Galileo, 39

  Gates, Bill, 20, 88, 99, 117, 150

  Gingrich, Newt, 90, 91

  Gingry, Phil, 96

  Glasgow, 9

  Glass, Ira, 109

  Gleick, James, 109

  global warming, 12, 104

  Gohmert, Louis, 96

  Golden Christian School, 37

  Golden Rule, 87

  Goldman, Emma, 69–70

  Goldwater, Barry, 10, 65, 91–92, 107, 111–112, 119

  Graham, Billy, 26–27, 86

  Graham, Franklin, 27

  Greeley, Andrew, 62

  Green, Steven K., 54

  Ground Zero, 94, 96

  Guantanamo, 25

  Guttmacher Institute, 45

  Haggard, Ted, 26–27, 66

  Hall, Jeremy, 43

  Hall, Ralph, 28, 97

  Harold and Maude, 142

  Hartzler, Vicky, 97

  Head Start programs, 28, 58, 105, 143

  health-care reform bill, 99

  Heckman, James, 137

  Hemingway, Ernest, 36

  Hensley, George, 38

  Herger, Wally, 97

  Heritage Foundation, 95

  Hitler, Adolf, 39, 98

  HIV/AIDS, 47, 48, 101, 127

  homosexuality, views of members of Congress toward, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99, 102, 106

  Huckabee, Mike, 65

  Huckleberry Finn, 36

  hucksters, 78–91

  Hudson, John, 47

  Human Development Index, 137

  Human Rights Act (Illinois), 103

  Human Rights Campaign, 94

  humanism, 150

  Humanist Manifesto, 150

  Hunter, Duncan, 106

  Ibrahim, Mustafa, 9

  I Ching, 78

  “Imagine,” 139–140

  immigrants, illegal, 106

  “In God We Trust,” 96, 99, 130, 142

  Incas, 24

  India, 13

  Ingersoll, Robert, 148

  Inglehart, Robert, 148

  Inherit the Wind, 16, 28

  Inhofe, Jim, 98

  Institute for Humanist Studies, 152

  Institute in Basic Life Principles, 105

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 12, 27, 81, 83–84

  Iraq War, 11, 108, 153

  Islam, 94, 96, 107

  Issa, Darrell, 98

  Jaani, Raam, 149

  Jacoby, Susan, 19, 127

  Jagger, Mick, 118

  Jefferson, Thomas

  and the Constitution, 40

  and the Corps of Discovery, 133

  and Enlightenment, 38, 133, 138–139

  famous quotes, 23, 31–32, 42, 133

  and secularism, 19, 29, 125, 132

  and separation of church and state, 10, 20, 28, 34–35, 54, 103, 139

  and Texas Board of Education, 34, 54

  and Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 31, 35

  Jesuit Volunteer Corps, 17

  Jewish Americans, 109

  Jobs, Steve, 79, 88

  Joel, Billy, 109

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 107

  Jolie, Angelina, 20, 109, 127

  Jones, Larry, 152

  Kaplan, Woody, 148

  Katcoff v. Marsh, 44–45

  Kennedy, John F., 28, 37

  and American exceptionalism, 135

  and “Berlin Wall” speech, 72

  as inspiration, 74, 121, 135, 146

  and moon exploration, 121

  and morality, 75, 80

  and science education, 55

  and separation of church and state, 37, 112

  and “We Are All Mortal” speech, 73

  Kennedy, Robert, 17, 119, 120

  King, Jr., Martin Luther

  and adultery, 100–101

  and “I Have a Dream” speech, 72–73

  as inspiration, 74, 146

  and morality, 75

  and prayer in school, 38

  and social justice, 119

  King, Stephen, 124

  King, Steve, 98

  Kinsley, Michael, 109

  Kirkhardt, Bobbie, 148

  Kline, Kevin, 109

  KLUE, 78

  Koran, 38

  Kurtz, Paul, 152

  Kyl, Jon, 106

  Labrador, Raul, 99

  Lady Diana, 142–143

  Lakewood Church, 82

  Leaves of Grass, 69

  Lee, Nick, 152

  Lehrer, Tom, 109

  Leigh, Janet, 143

  Lennon, John, 78–79, 117, 132, 139–140

  Lennon, Sean, 109

  Lewis, Meriwether, 133

  Libertarians, 100, 112, 126

  Life of Brian, 142

  Limbaugh, Rush, 26

  Lincoln, Abraham, 35–36, 121, 127

  Lindley, DeMyreon, 124

  Lindsay, Ron, 152

  Lonsdale, Harry, 144

  Love and Death, 142

  Lyon, Phyllis, 52

  Mad Men, 65, 72–74

  Madison, James

  on military chaplains, 33–34

  and the Constitution, 40, 133, 139–141

  and the dictates of conscience, 33

  and faith-based initiatives, 34, 49

  famous quotes, 33–34, 42

  and prayer day, 33

  and science, 146

  and secularism, 14, 29, 132

  and separation of church and state, 9, 20, 28, 33–35, 103

  Madoff, Bernie, 81

  Maher, Bill, 102, 109

  Maine Discovery Museum, 144

  Maine, 58–59

  Malkovich, John, 109

  Man-Boy Love Association, 62

  Manchin, Joe, 99

  marriage, 52, 96, 103

  Martin, Del, 52

  Martin, George, 78

  Massachusetts, 60

 

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