Why we cannot underestimate the fundnuts - 2008 'accomplishments'
by: Pam Spaulding
Sat Dec 27, 2008 at 09:00:00 AM EST

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Frederick Clarkson has a great piece up, "The Religious Right isn't going anywhere," that gives a roundup some of the more rancid fundnut activities in 2008, along with commentary that these creationism proponents and bedroom and womb peepers will continue the culture wars for years to come, focusing on throwing up roadblocks at the state level, since they aren't going to get much accomplished at the federal level with the regime change. Here are his Snapshots from the Culture War in the States this year:

    * Anti-marriage-equality initiatives prevailed in Arizona, Florida and California in 2008. Fueled with funding from politically animated Mormons, Catholics and Protestant evangelicals at the urging of religious leaders, the initiatives passed, and for the first time in American history, rolled back a court-ordered civil rights advance.