Barack Obama didn't outshine John McCain this weekend the way many anticipated he might at the "Faith Forum" held by influential evengelical leader Ri...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Because they have no better answer, Evangelicals are just out to stop Obama, America's best chance for a fresh start in a world grown understandably sick of us.
Mario Almonte | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Behind all the glitter of the Obama campaign, the grim reality is that the number of undecided voters is growing.
Scout Opatut | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Think about your grandmother. I'm sure she's very sweet. But would she make a good president? If we're going to vote a 72-year-old into office, we better make sure we're voting in the right one.
Christine Wicker | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home
How does a transvestite go to the toilet? I don't mean anatomically. I mean locationally, as in to which bathroom? I never thought about it until Focus on the Family began battling Colorado's new anti-discrimination bill.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
One by one, prominent conservatives are "coming around" to the candidacy of John McCain after excoriating him for months as nothing more than a liberal in sheep's clothing.
AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his po...
Christine Wicker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
One out of four Americans identifies as evangelical. A recent Pew survey of their opinions, however, found a diversity that should give political pundits pause and fuel Obama's efforts to woo them.
Wayne Besen | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
When James Dobson cites research or statistics in this election cycle, news reporters have an obligation to check with the actual researchers who conducted the studies.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Many of the nation's leading Jesus Thieves convened in Denver last Tuesday to work towards uniting behind the candidacy McCain, a man who used to have the courage to denounce such charlatans.
Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
On June 10, Barack Obama convened a meeting in a law office in downtown Chicago with a wide array of about thirty evangelical leaders, in an unprecedented effort to win their support.
Elizabeth Shipp | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
James Dobson and Tony Perkins, and John McCain don't have the guts to stand up and speak the truth about their radical, out-of-the-mainstream views.
Justin Frank | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Voters need to overcome their fear in order not simply to hate the haters -- they need to recognize who in fact the haters are.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
I'll take the Christianity of a Jesus Follower like Barack Obama over that of a Jesus Thief like James Dobson any day of the week.
Washington Post | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Sparks are flying in the 2008 culture wars. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, leader of the largest Methodist congregation in the country, launched a websi...
Bill Press | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Obama is standing up to the religious right, saying that when making the laws that govern our nation, we don't turn to the Bible. We base our laws on the only sacred text all Americans worship: The U.S. Constitution.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media
The media has ignored that Dobson is best-selling author famous for advising parents to whip their children with sticks. Why should he have a prominent place in American politics at all?
John K. Wilson | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
Dobson's attacks on Obama reveal what Dobson truly is: a right-wing nut with delusional interpretations of the Bible who unfortunately wields enormous influence within the Republican Party.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
With enemies like this, Senator Obama doesn't need friends. Dobson's comments will energize his fellow evangelicals to vote for Barack.
AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuse...
AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
James Dobson, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, backed Mike Huckabee's presidential bid Thursday night, giving the for...
Time | Michael Scherer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Last week, the political arm of James Dobson's Focus on the Family released an online video voter guide to help Christians sort through the "pro-famil...
Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"However, Dobson spoke out against the idea of a third party even if "both Democratic and Republican nominees are known to be entirely unsupportive of...
AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
James Dobson, one of the nation's most politically influential evangelical Christians, made it clear in a message to friends this week he will not sup...
Earnest Harris | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home