The Broadway tune goes "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." For the Christian Right, "Controversial ads make the cash registers sing."
Less than two months after launching its pathetically unsuccessful campaign to get the retailer JC Penney to dump Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson, the American Family Association's OneMillionMoms is attacking Urban Outfitters for its April catalog featuring an image of two young women kissing.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "The company's president and CEO, Richard Hayne, is a known conservative and he donated over $13,000 to the Rick Santorum campaign." Hayne also donated $10,000 to Republican Meg Whitman's failed California gubernatorial run.

Inquiring minds want to know: Why would an conservative Christian group that calls itself OneMillionMoms and has only 40,000 members, be taken seriously?

In early March, Invisible Children burst onto the world stage with its KONY 2012 video promoting its "Stop Kony" campaign. The video focused on Joseph Kony, the Uganda warlord and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla group with a long and violent history that includes turning kidnapped children into child soldiers.

The KONY 2012 video went mega-viral; surpassing 100 million views in six days and breaking previous records set by Susan Boyle's April 2009 appearance on the television program "Britain's Got Talent," which hit that mark in 9 days, and Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video, which took 18 days to surpass 100 million views.

Not long after the organization became a social media phenomenon, its co-founder Jason Russell was captured on video running naked along a busy San Diego street, cursing and ranting about the devil. That video also went viral.

While the video, and Russell's mental breakdown, have been extensively reported on, Invisible Children's broad connections to the Religious Right have not received much media attention.

In the trailer for his new documentary "Monumental," TV actor Kirk Cameron has an 'a-ha! 'moment. While visiting Christian historical revisionist David Barton, Cameron exclaims: "So hold on. The United States Congress was commissioning and printing Bibles to be given to all the people because they knew that that's what would produce the character necessary to make America blossom and flourish and thrive."

It doesn't take much for the Christian Right to embrace a narrative of martyrdom. And if you're in showbiz and you've been criticized for anti-gay remarks, the boys in the band - the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, American Values' Gary Bauer, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer among others - will automatically leap to your defense.

Lights, camera, action! - it's close-up time for Kirk Cameron.

The Ruth Institute has nothing to do with preserving the memory of baseball's immortal Babe Ruth, nor is it a tribute site to Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the Tollhouse brand of chocolate chip cookies. Founded by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the Ruth Institute -- whose tag line reads "One Man. One Woman for Life" -- is a project of the National Organization for Marriage Educational Fund, and a dedicated opponent of same-sex marriage.

It is no wonder then that Morse sprang to the defense of the of the National Organization for Marriage after previously secret strategy memos were released that revealed that NOM was specifically setting out to divide minority communities from the gay community in order to win their support in the battle over same-sex marriage.

Pastor John Hagee, the founder of a multi-million dollar media empire anchored by his San Antonio, Texas megachurch that boasts 19,000 active members, and whose incendiary comments about Jews, Catholics and gays caused Senator John McCain to publicly disavow his support during the 2008 presidential campaign, recently boasted that his Christian Zionist organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), had passed the one million member mark.

"Six years ago Prime Minister Netanyahu asked me if we could unite Christians in support of Israel. I told him I didn't know. Having reached 1 million members, I think the answer is clear. America's Christians are uniting in support of Israel," Hagee said at a CUFI meeting in Israel that featured Netanyahu.

For 70 years the small pristine town of Riverdale has been home to Archie, Veronica, Betty, Reggie, Jughead and an assortment of decidedly wholesome and occasionally zany characters. In Veronica#202 - published in September 2010 - Kevin Keller joined the gang, becoming Riverdale's first openly gay chap.

"Archie's hometown of Riverdale has always been a safe world for everyone. It just makes sense to have an openly gay character in Archie comic books," Archie Comics co-CEO Jon Goldwater explained. Keller "proved so popular that not only is he coming back to hang with Archie and the gang in issue 205 ... but he's getting his own Kevin Keller ongoing series beginning in June," USA Today's Brian Truitt recently reported.

While the public has responded favorably to Keller's arrival in Riverdale, the folks at the American Family Association (AFA) have gone bonkers, a fairly common condition for the anti-gay conservative Christian hate group.

Just a few years ago, during the height of the recession, his organization froze wages, stopped contributing to employees' 401(k) retirement accounts, and turned down the thermostat at its new headquarters during the winter, all in attempts to save money. However, at the same time all this belt tightening was going on he was breaking ground on a new 4 million-dollar home on lakefront property in South Carolina, and raking in a record amount of contributions to his ministry.

Meet David Cerullo, and welcome to the world of the "prosperity gospel," where the only people we know for sure are prospering are the ministers running the show.

We know little about Guatemala, a Central American neighbor with a troubled history, stoked by U.S. corporate profiteering, military interventions, and U.S. support for an assortment of ruthless military dictators. During a thirty plus-year bloody civil war, the Guatemalan army, police and paramilitary groups were responsible for destroying hundreds of Maya villages and the deaths of tens of thousands of Mayan people. Most official estimates maintain that some 200,000 Guatemalans were killed, mostly by government or government-related forces. In recent years Guatemala City has become one of the most violent cities in the world, as violence by drug cartels and gangs continues to rise.

Last year's November elections vaulted a general linked to human rights abuses into the presidency. One of his first appointments was a man who has consistently demonized the Mayan people, and who, over the years, has developed a close relationship to C. Peter Wagner's U.S.-based Christian conservative religious movement, the New Apostolic Reformation.

[note: this is the second in a three part series. Part 3 will address the eliminationist nature of the Spiritual Mapping paradigm promoted by Harold Caballeros, C. Peter Wagner, and other top NAR leadership]

In January 2012, NAR apostle Harold Caballeros officially entered the realm of international politics, joining the administration of new Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina as the head of Guatemala's Foreign Ministry. Caballeros brings with him troubling political ties to his country's recent violent past (see this article), as well as a record of promoting the New Apostolic Reformation's characteristically supremacist religious and ideological views (see story, below, for details.)

Harold Caballeros is considered to be both a significant leader and also a major theoretician within the NAR, who has helped to pioneer the New Apostolic Reformation's distinctive ideas and practices on Spiritual Mapping and spiritual warfare.

As of a little more than one-hour before the kickoff to Super Bowl XLVI, 71% of the vote had been tallied in the Nevada caucuses, and it is clear that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had easily outpaced his challengers --including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- by getting nearly 50 percent of the vote.

While Newt Gingrich was taking it on the chin in Florida, thousands of miles away in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was beating back a challenge to his Likud Party leadership from ultranationalists, thus making it a so-so week for Sheldon Adelson.

Over the years, Adelson, the casino magnate, has contributed mightily to an assortment of Gingrich's political projects, including his run for the Republican Party's presidential nomination; a range of so-called pro-Israel organizations in the U.S.; and, Netanyahu's political career.

Now that Gingrich has been defeated in Nevada, will Adelson move his money into Romney's campaign war chest?

Since the Supreme Court's 1962 decision banning prayer in the public school classrooms, conservative evangelical Christians have been at war with public education. Many conservatives point to that decision as the harbinger of America's moral decline. For years, Christian Right organizations and their leaders have railed against teachers' unions, opposed tax increases to improve public education, and have even gone so far as to encourage Christian parents to withdraw their children from the public schools. During this period, the Christian Right ran stealth school board candidates and took control of the decision-making process in numerous school districts.

Now, it appears the movement has found another way of imposing its religious views in the public schools; through thinly disguised afterschool Bible study programs.