Blog Entries by Peter Montgomery

The Speech: Romney Still No JFK

Posted December 6, 2007 | 03:16 PM (EST)


Mitt Romney's speech on religious liberty and the role his faith would play in his presidency - the long-discussed "JFK speech" -- included some Kennedy-esque rhetoric about the fundamental importance of religious liberty, but it was a far cry from JFK's ringing endorsement of church-state separation.

The timing of Romney's...

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Romney Pulling a Reverse JFK?

Posted December 6, 2007 | 09:17 AM (EST)


After months of dithering about whether to make a major speech about his Mormon faith, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is scheduled to address "Faith in America" at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Thursday night. John F. Kennedy's famous speech to Protestant ministers in Houston...

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An Unholy Alliance: Rudy Giuliani and Pat Robertson

Posted November 7, 2007 | 06:07 PM (EST)


Rudy Giuliani, the self-described pro-choice, pro-gay rights presidential candidate, aggressively sought and won the endorsement of Pat Robertson, a televangelist with a decades-long record of extremism and offensive attacks on women, feminists, gay people, liberals, and non-Christians.

But what appears to be a political odd couple may in fact be...

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The Undead

Posted November 1, 2007 | 04:30 PM (EST)


Even though every Republican presidential candidate dutifully trekked to the "Values Voter Summit" to seek the support of Religious Right leaders and activists this month, some in the media are declaring the movement dead as a political force. Here's why they're dead wrong.

It's true that some leaders are...

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Memo to Time: The Far Right Knows the Supreme Court Matters

Posted October 18, 2007 | 10:28 AM (EST)


Talk about bad timing! Time magazine's cover story telling Americans the Supreme Court isn't relevant to their lives appeared the very same week that every major Republican presidential candidate will appear before the right-wing leaders at the so-called "Values Voter Summit" and pledge more Supreme Court justices in the...

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More Lies from the Supposed Guardians of Truth

Posted May 3, 2007 | 07:22 PM (EST)


On Thursday May 3, the House of Representatives overcame an intensive propaganda campaign by anti-gay organizations and passed hate crimes legislation that would allow federal law enforcement officials to step in when state or local officials cannot or will not prosecute a violent hate crime. That's...

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What Dinesh D'Souza Gets Wrong About the Left

Posted February 1, 2007 | 03:55 PM (EST)


You have got to be kidding. Dinesh D'Souza publishes a book called The Enemy Within: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11, and then gets space in the Washington Post to declare his critics hysterical? D'Souza and his publisher have clearly embraced Ann Coulter's road-to-riches strategy: make the...

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