Religious Right Leaders Meet to Plot Big-Money Blitz For 2014 Elections

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/scary-summit-religious-right-leaders-meet-plot-big-money-blitz-2014-elections




These are challenging times for the Religious Right. The movement seems to be rapidly losing ground on one of its signature issues, same-sex marriage, and polls show large numbers of young people recoiling from the theocratic agenda of ultra-conservative fundamentalists.

So these groups must be ready to pack up their tents and go home, right?

Not quite. Politico reported last week that the leaders of more than two dozen Religious Right groups met recently in a type of super-council in Tysons Corner, Va., a Washington, D.C., suburb, to strategize about the best way to get back into the game this election year.

The answer they came up with is old-fashioned but often effective: Money.