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Originally posted at Talk to Action.

The Catholic Right, Part Fifty-nine

As several of us here at Talk to Action have discussed, reports of the Religious Right's demise are greatly exaggerated. For the moment their movement is stalled. But stalled is not the same as finished. But it might mean -- in transition, And as we've seen in the recent past it is a movement that is both resilient and well-funded.

With that thought in mind, it is time to take another look at one of the up-and-coming faces of the Religious Right, Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal -- who may be viewed as the poster-child for Religious Right's new brand of ecumenical politics.

Jindal may get his face on the poster because he is a traditionalist Catholic whose brand sells well to conservative evangelicals, and as The Wall Street Journal recently noted has a "gift for oratory."

As I noted in Part Thirty-three of this series:

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The Catholic Right, Thirty-seven In a Series

Over the next few weeks I will be examining the beliefs of Catholic neoconservative Michael Novak. Here is the introductory installment.

Many on the Religious Right accuse liberals of socialism and of seeking to use the power of the state to destroy individual liberty. And few do so more vociferously than Neoconservative Michael Novak. Yet the use of state power to limit the freedom of conscience is precisely what the American Enterprise Institute scholar seeks to do.

It is a clear-cut case of do as I say, not as I do.