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Article: Has the Christian Right taken over the Republican Party? (religion in US politics) (Cover Story)
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- September 1, 1994
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Religion has always infused American politics, from the days when Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop proclaimed the virgin continent "a City upon hill" in 1630, to the 1960s when Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders struggled for civil rights, to the growing grassroots power of the religious right today. God's people have never been strangers within the profane environs of Caesar.
Ever since it rose to prominence in the late 1970s, the Christian Right has attracted considerable press interest. Indeed, few political movements have generated so much overwrought commentary. When examined with a coldly non-partisan eye, it turns out that much of the ...