If ever you needed evidence of the Religious Right's impressive organization and zeal, take a look at the gross overreaction of the American Family Association to NBC's decision last weekend to run the "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag" without the "under God" wording at the start of the U.S. Open golf tournament broadcast.

At a standing room-only press conference in a U.S. House office building yesterday, members of Congress joined representatives from the Secular Coalition for America and dozens of other civil rights organizations in urging President Obama to fulfill the promise he made nearly three years ago to end the Bush-era policy that allows religious organizations receiving federal funds to discriminate in employment on the basis of faith.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been a thorn in Americans United’s side for the past few years. A staunch ally of the Religious Right, Cuccinelli seems to have no problem using government to promote right-wing theology.

While I didn’t see the Book of Mormon musical, I do find the Mormon religion story rather funny: After Jesus died, but before he went to heaven, Jesus stopped in the United States.