Tell us about Religious Right: The Greatest Threat to Democracy.

There is a deceptive movement to hijack the government, courts, education, media outlets, and American culture.  Religious Right: The Greatest Threat to Democracy exposes this extremist movement.  In particular it reveals: R. J. Rushdoony – the architect of the Religious Right; Quiverfull – the Religious Right’s model for the “traditional family”; the Seven Mountains Mandate – the blueprint for controlling business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, the family and religion, plus much more.

What genre is it? 

Non-fiction.  It is not a memoir or a story structure, but an organized and systematic exposé.

What kind of readers will it appeal to?

There are many people who consider themselves faithful yet scratch their heads at much of the drama over anything from graduations in a church to the fight over birth control.  This book exposes an extremism that is highjacking faith.  I quote from evangelicals who disagree with the Religious Right, and I quote Methodist pastors who have battled the Religious Right to keep their churches as they were.  Anybody who wants the freedom to freely worship would gain valuable insights.

How much research did you have to do before writing the book?

Four years of research, long hours taking the research and organizing into a cohesive, presentable format.

With the presidential elections just around the corner, do you feel that it is more important than ever that people read your book?

Absolutely.  Besides Todd Akin (legitimate rape is from Deuteronomy), Michelle Bachmann (graduate of Falwell’s Liberty University), Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum (talking of evils of birth control) who are the obvious Religious Right, there are others that have infiltrated the government.  Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. chairs the Federal House Science Committee’s panel on investigations and oversight – he boldly states that evolution is from Hell.

Our Armed Forces are being forced to attend prayer services and use rifles with Bible quotes on the sights.  We have “Freedom Sunday” where pastors and knowingly and deliberately violating the law and endorsing specific candidates from the pulpit.

Ralph Reed is back on the scene to organize an army of conservative Christian voters to ensure the vote goes in the “moral majority’s” way.

What question would you ask if you had both presidential candidates in a room?

Will you disassemble the Office of Faith Based Initiatives, which is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and maintain a wall of separation between church and state?

You say you are a former member of the religious right. Is this book a personal crusade for you, and does that make you more or less trustworthy on the subject?

This book is far from a personal crusade.  My background in the movement gives the book an insider’s vantage point to understand the movement’s worldview and tactics.  It also means that I recognize their messaging and agenda in much of the political grandstanding that we witness today.  The Chick-fil-a fiasco was already in my book before it made the news, as well as Hobby Lobby.  But my book explains WHY they are the way they are.  Even Todd Akin’s views of rape and Rick Santorum’s stand on birth control are explained in the pages of my book long before they were news items.  My editor told me the other day that it is as if my book was prophetic, as we see what I wrote about splashed on the news.

Writing a book is never easy, but other than that, what has been the toughest part – editing or marketing?

Marketing by far is the hardest.  If money were no issue, it probably would not be so hard, but that is rarely the case.

Tell us a bit about yourself.

I have a Bachelor in Business Administration and a BA in Sacred Theology.  I have always worked in Fortune 500 companies or the Defense industry throughout my adult working life.   I was a part-time church secretary, editor to the church magazine of typically 25 pages that was also mailed to subscribers in the U.S., and a Sunday School teacher for approximately seven years or so.

Have you got a blog where readers can keep up with your work?

No blog as of yet.  I have pitched doing a blog on Huffington Post and await word from them.  But I do have an active Facebook page  where news items of related issues covered in the book are posted.

Where can we buy  Religious Right?

The print book is available for order online via Indie Bound, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, and BooksaMillion.com.  The ebook is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Copia, iBookstore, Sony, Kobo, Baker and Taylor, and shortly at Gardner’s.  Those are the places I am aware of, but I keep finding it on other internet books sites as well.  It is carried at the three Tattered Cover stores in Denver.

What’s next?

I have several ideas still in my head.  I had to cut approximately two hundred pages from the book, of research, and I have considered polishing those and creating two separate e-booklets that I would sell for .99.  After that I will have to decide on the next non-fiction project.  I do have fiction plots that I have been working on as well.