We are long overdue for a rescue round-up but there certainly has been alot happening in the Greater Blogosphere regarding the religious right and what to do about it. No doubt, there is much I have missed.

But before we get to the more traditional rescue round-up, I want to note that lately, an influential faction in the Democratic Party that overlaps with the agenda and talking points of the religious right has come under fire.  As I wrote here and elsewhere around the blogosphere, some fashionable political consultants think that candidates should jettison use of the phrase separation of church and state because, they say it sends up "red flags with people of faith."  What ever the merits of the scriptwriters du jour, fortunately, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has for 50 years been led primarily by "people of faith" brushes off such glib faddishness.  Lauren Smith reminds us this week in their blog The Wall of Separation: