The sweep of Religious Right backed candidates into congressional and gubernatorial seats Nov. 5 greatly jeopardizes our nation's promise of religious liberty. These opponents of constitutional separation of church and state will likely enjoy unprecedented political influence in the Bush White House.
Despite exit polls showing voters favoring GOP candidates did so out of support for the war on terrorism, not allegiance to the Religious Right, we will no doubt see a new push to display religious documents in government buildings, allow mandated prayer and \Intelligent Design"" in public schools, expand funding of church-run schools and give a free ride to Bush's discriminatory ""Faith-Based Initiative.""
How quickly our leaders forget the absolute necessity separating religion and government is to the liberties we take for granted, and now how eager they are to recreate the religious oppression so many Americans fled here to escape.
