If you have ever heard of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) and thought it was a religious organization, you would have been mistaken. Names can be deceiving. This Washington, D.C.-based group, often called on by the media to comment on religious matters, is a political think tank aligned with far-right conservative political causes. For them, groups like the National Association of Evangelicals, often thought of as the center of the Religious Right, are too liberal.
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