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God and the Tea Party

Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Wednesday 27 October 2010

Bolstered by victories over mainstream Republicans, the conservative Tea Party movement is looking increasingly like the real opposition to the Democrats in America's mid-term elections.

Its key policy points are low taxation and keeping government at arm's length.

Some believe that this dynamic grassroots movement is marginalizing another, which has been highly influential in US politics since the 1980s: the religious right with its key policies on abortion, gay marriage, and school prayers.

Join Matthew Wells as he goes to Kentucky to find out whether the Tea Party has excluded God from the political agenda.

And find out where it stands on the controversial Islamic centre near Ground Zero in New York.

Photograph: Evangel World Prayer Center at Louisville, Kentucky.

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