One more update to the that list: Arlen Specter has recently switched parties and is now officially a Democrat.
   Frank Schaeffer, author of CRAZY FOR GOD: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back, has a unique perspective on the takeover of the Republican Party by the radical religious right. If you've got 8 minutes check him out: