Here's an idea: This nation was, in sizable measure, founded by people who fled religious persecution in Europe. Jefferson was a Diest and it isn't accurate to say he was Christian. The Treaty of Tripoli, from the early 1800's, states that the USA is not founded upon the Christian religion. I think it was even signed by George Washington. Sooo, why do we have all these right-wing religious folks screwing with our lives?

Today we have an ambassador to The Vatican! Call me anti-Catholic if you wish, but I don't want my tax dollars going for THAT! Thank Ronald Reagan and the 1980's for that, as it NEVER would have flown decades earlier. I also don't want my taxes going to religious schools in the form of vouchers. Nor school bus subsidies, which are common in cities across America.

Then, there is birth control; international family planning, and abortion.

I see the religious Right as a pillar holding up corporate America, the Republican party, etc. The way to knock that pillar out from under it all is to push for a militant secularism. And as we do that, we can shield ourselves with something the Right dare not attack: patriotism. THEY are the subversives. THEY have sold out American values.

Lemme recommend some groups. There is the old, mainstream, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Originally it was largely Baptist and protestant and concerned with the Catholic church wanting tax dollars, etc. (remember that ambassador, who the Vatican must APPROVE). Now it is a mix of atheists, agnostics, preachers, Jews, etc. etc. I'm sure it has Pagan members. It is in DC.

Then, there is The Freedom from Religion Foundation out of Madison, WI. It does a lot of good work, too.

I hope you'll consider this tactic. Hit 'em in their soft underbelly: their violation of something uniquely American. The separation of church and state. Let's take the wind out of their sails. Let's knock that pillar out from under the Right.

Whew. That's all. Hope you consider this.