Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in Dangerous Times [Paperback]

Sara Diamond (Author)

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This year has seen the Religious Right seize control of the Republican Party on the state level and at the national convention, controlling everything from the political platform to the presidential nominee selection process. Meeting this challenge means understanding the nature of the threat. Facing The Wrath is an essential guide which provides a comprehensive overview including profiles of the Christian Coalition and Christian Right groups, the assault on the Public Broadcasting System, immigrant bashing, "Dominion theology" seeking to substitute biblical law for secular law. Readers will learn how "Focus on the Family" uses its mega-radio ministry to organize seminars for rightwing activists, how the rightwing and their lawyers threaten secular education, and the rightwing anti-gay agenda. Facing The Wrath reveals the rightwing struggle to control academia, the struggle over foreign policy, and abortion politics (uncontrolled terrorism from the right). From "Family Values", dominion theology, and abortion politics to xenophobia, homophobia, and free market environmentalism, Sara Diamond's Facing The Wrath reveals in chilling detail what the fundamentalist dominated, Religious Right agenda means for the United States -- and for freethinkers. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Common Courage Press (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567510787
• ISBN-13: 978-1567510782
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,770,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wrath of the Righteous, April 6, 2000

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This review is from: Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in Dangerous Times (Paperback)

Using her own essays based on her own first-hand experience and research, Ms. Diamond documents the goals of the Religious Right and its methods of attaining them. There is an authenticity in her writing, no doubt the result of her daring to enter the arena with her research subjects. Ms. Diamond points out that those of a progressive bent -- not necessarily liberals, democrats, or anti-religionists -- who wish to defeat the Right's attempts to usurp church-state separation must have an understanding of the Right, its motives, fears and objectives.

Diamond treats her subject with respect, although she is not above making the occasional subjective comment (like her remark about discovering the "lunatic fringe"). I suppose if I had wandered into the hornet's nest to do direct research on them, I'm sure I'd have a few thoughts to share about how they sting.

Intelligent, insightful, highly informative, and for me, motivating. I have put her book "Roads to Dominion" on my Wish List. Diamond's work is an accessible resource for anyone wishing to get a grasp of the Religious Right and the danger it truly does pose to civil liberties in the US.