Report Urges Focus on Religious Conservatives' Policy

By Mark Walsh

The political clout of religious conservatives has been overstated, and progressives should attack their specific policy proposals rather than their right to participate in the political arena, advises a new report by People for the American Way.

Most Americans "reject most of the specific policy solutions offered by the religious right," Arthur J. Kropp, the president of the Washington-based civil-liberties group, says in the report.

The report says most Americans are not drawn to the messages of religious conservatives, nor do they fear their influence. But neither are they drawn strongly...