With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, And Democracy In George W. Bush's White House

With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, And Democracy In George W. Bush's White House

by Esther Kaplan
With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, And Democracy In George W. Bush's White House

With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, And Democracy In George W. Bush's White House

by Esther Kaplan

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Overview

When asked which single issue most affected their vote in the last presidential election, more than one in five Americans said "moral values"—and 78 percent of these voters chose to reelect President George W. Bush. Indeed, Christian fundamentalists made up close to 40 percent of the president's electorate in 2004, and their turnout increased by some four million voters over 2000.

As Esther Kaplan shows in her richly detailed investigation, it's no wonder the Christian right voted for Bush in droves—their loyal support in 2000 produced fantastic results. While organizations that offer abortion counseling and services or help to prevent HIV see their funds cut, church groups receive millions in federal dollars to promote sexual abstinence and marriage (provided, of course, it is heterosexual). Bush has appointed a Christian right dream team to the federal courts, dedicated to tearing down what one such judge calls "the so-called separation of church and state. Religious zeal even shapes Bush's foreign policy, as Christian belief in the end times spurs the administration's support for hard-line policies in Israel.

A prescient study of the Christian right's growing political clout, With God on Their Side is essential reading for anyone concerned about America's direction.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781595580313
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 11/22/2005
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Esther Kaplan is a radio and print journalist and a community activist. She was acting senior editor at The Nation and features editor at POZ, the national AIDS magazine; she has also written for the Village Voice, Out, and The Nation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction1
1Yes, Virginia, It is a Holy War: Faith-based foreign policy from Israel to iraq8
2Christian Nation: From Bush's faith-based initiative to creationism in our public parks, the administration edges toward theocracy34
3Most Favored Constituency: How the Christian right came to dominate the Republican Party and the administration of George W. Bush68
4Weird Science: Faith healers, fake data, censorship, and other hallmarks of Christian science in the Bush administration91
5Good-Bye Roe: How to gut abortion rights in four easy steps129
6Whose Gay Agenda? A president who was soft on gays finds religion and joins the antimarriage crusade148
7AIDS, Born Again: AIDS was never a Republican issue, but Bush gave it a Christian makeover167
8The Purity Brigades: The Bush administration's one-size-fits-all abstinence agenda saves souls, not lives194
9The Global Crusade: Taking cues from the Vatican, Bush exports "family values" abroad219
10Stacking the Courts: Building permanent conservative rule on the federal bench244
Coda270
Notes279
Index315
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