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Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in Dangerous Times

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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.