My coblogger posted below about the reach of the religious right in our society. I have to disagree with the extent of their influence. They have had a huge impact on our lives.
An article at theocracywatch.org details just some of the impact these "nuts" have had on this country.
"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."—U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT

One way to measure the political strength of dominionists is to study voting patterns of members of Congress. A recent amendment added to a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, HR 2123, allows religious discrimination in Head Start hiring which is a serious blow to both religious liberty and civil rights.

They have determined at least two Supreme Court justices. They have bullied legislators into allowing pharacists to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. They have eliminated teaching birth control in programs all over the world, insisting on abstinence only. They are influencing legsilators as to how and when a person may choose to die and if they can have marijuana to ease the pain of cancer and other terminal illnesses. They create a circus around Terry Schiavo and legislators actually head back to D.C. for an emergency session on a brain dead woman while tens of thousands are dying in Iraq. They had a major impact in the Ohio election debacle in 2004. One of their "christians" is the head of Blackwater, the mercenary group operating in Iraq and sucking millions of tax dollars away from this country.

Congressional scorecards from organizations such as the Christian Coalition, Family Research Council, and Eagle Forum also illustrate the strength of dominionists in Congress. Click here to view Senate Congressional scorecards from those three organizations as compared to the League of Conservation Voters, a consortium of environmental groups. You'll see an almost perfect inverse correlation -- the higher the scores from dominionist groups, the lower the scores on the environment.

They have ignored our environmental crisis until it is probably too late.
These people have infected every aspect of our lives. Am I anti-religion? You bet. The more I see of "compassionate conservatism" the angrier I get. Their "leaders" may consider them nuts, but the influence they have had and continue to have is insidious.

Oh, and I can't even buy a f*cking beer on Sunday because of Christians.