With God on their side
Subtitle: how Christian fundamentalists trampled science, policy, and democracy in George W. Bush's White House
By: Esther Kaplan
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781565849204
Subjects: Religion and state; Church and state; Religion; Religion and politics; Religion et politique; Religion et État; Église et État; Neue Christliche Rechte
Description: An evaluation of the influence of the Christian right on the current administration, discussing the direction of Christian fundamentalism as it is shaping today's political arena, in the areas of sex education, welfare assistance, and the war on terror.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Yes, Virginia, it is a holy war : faith-based foreign policy from Israel to Iraq; title: 2. Christian nation : from Bush's faith-based initiative to creationism in our public parks, the administration edges toward theocracy; title: 3. Most favored constituency : how the Christian right came to dominate the Republican Party and the administration of George W. Bush; title: 4. Weird science : faith healers, fake data, censorship, and other hallmarks of Christian science in the Bush administration; title: 5. Good-bye Roe : how to gut abortion rights in four easy steps; title: 6. Whose gay agenda? : a president who was soft on gays finds religion and joins the antimarriage crusade; title: 7. AIDS, born again : AIDS was never a Republican issue, but Bush gave it a Christian makeover; title: 8. The purity brigades : the Bush administration's one-size-fits-all abstinence agenda saves souls, not lives; title: 9. The global crusade : taking cues from the Vatican, Bush exports "family values" abroad.