In God’s Name is a look at the Religious Right in the UK and if I am reading the site correctly is available for online viewing for seven days.

Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion takes a look at the Dispatches show and some of the people and groups that were featured.

The UK religious right looks similar to Canada’s or Australia’s religious right, with the same kinds of issues and lobbying structures modelled from the US. UK funding has come from Focus on the Family and The American Defense League.

Bartholomews Notes on Religion:

The documentary claimed that the fundamentalist movement has two million followers in the UK, which seemed to me rather exaggerated. Most British evangelicals do not wish to be associated with the US “religious right” or with “fundamentalism”, and the movement as a whole is better represented by the likes of moderate leaders such as Steve Chalke or Jeff Lucas. Green in particular looked like a figure from another age, his followers holding placards with Biblical slogans that were designed decades ago and doubtless baffle most people who see them. However, we also saw Williams speaking to a roomful of Elim Pentecostal leaders, urging them to become more involved in politics. The LCF has been around since 1852, and she has clearly steered it into an aggressive direction…

In God’s name award winning film maker David Modell has an excellent background article in The Telegraph.

They think society should be built on their beliefs. They claim non-believers are damned. But these radical Christian groups are not in America – they are here and are aiming to change the laws of our land

While British fundamentalists (many neo-pentecostal) work within their culture, talking points and goals come straight from the US religious/political playbooks. Like in Canada and Australia, following the money sent in by US groups is difficult.

Lyndon Bowring, the charity’s executive chairman, is on the board of Kensington Temple, one of London’s largest Pentecostal organisations. He is also on the board of Care for the Family, the European arm of Focus on the Family. Focus on the Family is one of the largest and best-resourced pressure groups of America’s religious Right, and it is not coy about its fundamentalist agenda. Its mission statement talks of “defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide”.