Bruce Prescott has a hair-raisingly important post over at Talk to Action.

Two weeks ago Paul Pressler, the architect of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, described how the Religious Right intended to deal with Roe v. Wade. After expressing his elation with the selection of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he said, “Roe v. Wade won’t be revoked, it will die the death of a thousand cuts and qualifications and regulations until it gradually disappears.”

I suspect that Pressler has described the Religious Right’s strategy for dealing with more than Roe v. Wade. They are already applying the same strategy to repealing the First Amendment and civil rights legislation.

One of the most egregious examples is the authorization that congress gave churches and religious groups to discriminate in hiring yesterday. Churches and religious groups have always been free to discriminate in their hiring when they were spending money received from private donations. Yesterday congress authorized them to discriminate in hiring with the money they receive from federal grants.

Much more.

Its to be able to discuss important posts like this, that we are developing Talk to Action into a fully interactive scoop-based site. (Scoop is the underlying software behind The Daily Kos and Booman Tribune among others.) We need to be able to talk about stuff like this in a more considered way. We need to flesh out-the implications and discuss the short, medium and longterm things we can do about it. We need to know more about the religious right and governmental players behind such initiatives.

As we all know, things worth doing often take more time than anyone could reasonably have imagined. And that has been true in developing Talk to Action. But we are nearing launch. With any luck, we won’t have to take it off the launch pad and call in the engineers, or go back to the drawing board. But I think that this time, luck is with us.