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Salon points out that Jimmy Carter will be the guest on Charlie Rose tonight, "to discuss his new book on the rise of the religious right, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis."

Sounds good to me. Carter is what southern Christians should be about, but so rarely are. Especially these days. Publishers Weekly had this to say, but overall didn't praise the book:

. . .President Carter turns his attention to the political arena. He is gravely concerned by recent trends in conservatism, many of which, he argues, stem from the religious right's openly political agenda. Criticizing Christian fundamentalists for their "rigidity, domination and exclusion," he suggests that their open hostility toward a range of sinners (including homosexuals and the federal judiciary) runs counter to America's legacy of democratic freedom. Carter speaks eloquently of how his own faith has shaped his moral vision and of how he has struggled to reconcile his own values with the Southern Baptist church's transformation under increasingly conservative leadership. He also makes resonant connections between religion and political activism, as when he points out that the Lord's Prayer is a call for "an end to political and economic injustice within worldly regimes."