Social Conservatives Make Fundraising Plans
Operatives and donors from the Christian right recently met in Virginia
On a recent snowy day in the Washington suburb of Tyson's Corner, Va., some of the religious right's wealthiest backers and top operatives gathered at the Ritz-Carlton to plot their entry into the conservative civil war.
Their plan: take a page out of the playbooks of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers by raising millions of dollars, coordinating their political spending and assiduously courting megadonors.
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Finally, someone to save the country from same-sex marriage and porn. No, wait, everyone else is already waging a war on porn, so I guess it's just same-sex marriage.