The religious right's vision for America: the people say no.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

Americans may finally be waking up to the Religious Right's near stranglehold on our federal government.

For years, many Americans--even well-meaning people--dismissed the Religious Right as a "lunatic fringe" that would never gain real political power.

Americans United has for years worked to counteract that belief. We made note of the Religious Right's attacks on public schools, its attempts to censor books in public libraries, its demands that public policy be made to conform to its narrow religious viewpoint and its attacks on science education, reproductive…