If the Religious Right is in control, why did Democrats re-take Congress?

Point 1 TRUMPED.
If they're not in control, why is separation of church and state such a big issue? Why are there such conflicts over relatively small issues like the HPV vaccine and comprehensive sex education? Those aren't secular issues. The Dems got in on the issue of Iraq, which has nothing to do with the moral issues the christian right is interested in.

Again, the Puritans were not Fundamentalists - in any sense that people today understood it. Their persecution drove them out of England, and they pretty much kept to themselves when they arrived. They set up their own towns and colonies, and they were rather homogeneous entities - which you can do when the entire area is basically one church.

Point 2 TRUMPED.
So they keeped to themselves. So how does that not make them fundamentalist? Even today, some of the most fundamentalist groups isolate themselves from the world in order to block out the "sinful" influences. The point isn't even whether or not they're fundies or not, it's that religion in America, compared with other regions, has not been as quick to go.