If religion is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is crack cocaine. Rob Boston, associate editor for Church & State magazine examines the top ten power brokers of the religious right and efforts to style America under their narrow agenda.
- Pat Robertson – $246,986,289
Christian Broadcasting Network - Southern Baptist Convention – $205,716,834
- James Dobson – $156,972,266
Focus on the Family - Jay Sekulow, Pat Robertson – $42,658,159
American Center for Law and Justice - Alan Sears – $31,674,124
Alliance Defense Fund - Donald Wildmon – $22,547,087
American Family Association - Tony Perkins – $11,783,971
Family Research Council - Tim & Beverly LaHaye – $10,640,810
Concerned Women for America - Jerry Falwell Ministries – $4,208,989
- Steve Baldwin – $1,680,914
Council for National Policy
There’s also our pew of demagogues in politics and media. Dick Armey, for instance, who said, “Let me just be clear about something. I have no problem with Medicare. I was talking to my minister just last night about it”. Exactly.