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Peter Montgomery - 12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics

Published: Aug. 7, 2012, 7:38 p.m.

Host: Chris Mooney

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Our guest this week is Peter Montgomery, senior fellow with People for the American Way and author of a new report entitled\xa0Twelve Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics, released last week with a new introduction by Bill Moyers.

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Point of Inquiry invited Montgomery on the show to discuss these very useful rules of the road, but also to ask a key question: Will the religious right ever consent to follow them?

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Peter Montgomery oversees the People For the American Way Foundation's research and writing on the Religious Right. Before joining the group in 1994, he was associate director of grassroots lobbying for Common Cause, and also wrote and edited for Common Cause Magazine, an award-winning journal featuring investigative reporting about the federal government.