This 'religious right' thing is so incredibly overplayed by the media. We've always been here. We're nothing new.
All these articles tell me one thing - the chattering class is made up of lemmings clammoring to climb aboard the 'Let's Invent a bogeymen' bandwagon.
I can only imagine the fervor of the Religious Right comes up to Massachusetts and forces everyone to go to church!
Then there is that mandatory evening bible reading that I KNOW is just around the corner. The horror!
No one has mentioned the secret Mormon threat either!
I think you nailed it.