The 12 Worst (and Most Powerful) Christian Right Groups

By Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Posted on May 2, 2011, Printed on May 3, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150809/the_12_worst_%28and_most_powerful%29_christian_right_groups

The Religious Right in America is lavishly funded and politically well connected. While the men who lead the fundamentalist Christian political movement hold different opinions about theology, they share a deep and abiding hostility to the separation of church and state. They seek to inject religion into public schools, obtain taxpayer funding for religious schools and other ministries, roll back reproductive choice and deny civil rights to gay people. And they enjoy extraordinary influence in Washington, D.C., and in many state legislatures.

What follows is a survey of some of the nation’s leading Religious Right organizations. Collectively, these groups raise more than three-quarters of a billion dollars annually, the bulk of it tax-exempt. Budget figures are from public tax documents and are the most recent available, in most cases from 2009 and 2010.