10 Ways Right-Wing Christian Groups Will Likely Shove Religion Down Your Throat This Year

A surging religious right means daunting challenges for keeping Church and State separate.

January 4, 2012

The following piece comes from Church and State Magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

You don’t have to look far or wide to see signs that the Religious Right was resurgent in 2011.

From the halls of Congress, where the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly urged public schools to post “In God We Trust” displays in classrooms, to the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., that was attended by 3,000 fundamentalist Christian activists, the Religious Right’s influence loomed large.

Since 2012 is an election year, we expect the Religious Right to use this growing influence to wage an all-out war to shape the U.S. government into a body that will do its bidding.

With that in mind, here are 10 of the biggest challenges, issues and concerns that Americans United expects to confront in the coming twelve months.

  

• Improper Involvement of Religion in the 2012 Elections
• School Voucher Onslaught in the States and Congress
• The Catholic Bishops’ Crusade for ‘Religious Liberty’
• Improper Religious Proselytizing in Public Schools
• Faith-Based’ Funding and Hiring Bias
• Government Promotion of Religious Symbols
• Attacks on Religious Minorities
• The Marriage War
• Personhood’ Amendments Here, There and Everywhere
• Religiously Based Censorship

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