Last month's Economist has an article about the collaboration of the Russian Orthodox church with the same clique of Evangelicals led by Franklin Graham. Mercifully, cooperation appears limited to the Russian church and simply magnifies the social prejudices held jointly by the oligarchs, the Russian clerics, and the US fundies. Graham is the main driver here, but the Russians seem to be lapping it up and are always anxious to talk about the "imposition of the homosexual way of life" on everyone else. To its members, this is a coalition made in heaven; however, they are totally out of step with the views of most Americans, including religious ones . . .