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Please Don't Tolerate Me, Reverend Senator Díaz

Johnathan Wilber | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Gang of Three, Family Values, New York State Senate, Christopher Lynn, New York Times, Christian Right, Richard Dawkins, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, New York, Sarah Palin, Reverend Ruben Diaz, Politics News
Johnathan Wilber

I guess I need one of these evangelists to explain the "it's nothing personal" thing to me. Because frankly I can't imagine a single thing more personal than denying my family rights.

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Ted Haggard Prayer Meeting: People Who Showed Up 'Believe In Resurrection'

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Christian Right, Ted Haggard, Colorado Springs, Ted Haggard Prayer Meeting, New Life Church, Gay Rights, Denver News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn't the start of a new church...

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Why The Right Is Wrong On Ft. Hood

Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sesame Street, Ft Hood Shooting, Michelle Obama, Right Wing, Michelle Malkin, Islamophobia, Iraq War, Rwanda Genocide, Iraqi Civilian Deaths, American Muslims, Fox News, Religious Right, Muslim, Sesame Street 40th Anniversary, Hindu-Militants, Christian Right, Military, James Allison, Politics News
Azam Nizamuddin

In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies and interpret human beings with cultures and religions separate from our own.

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The Bible-New and Improved

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Christian Right, The Bible, Christian Conservatives, Andrew Schlafly, Books News
Christopher Brauchli

Andrew Schafly has decided to use his skills as engineer and lawyer to fix something that many people did not realize was broken -- the Bible.

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Focus On The Family's James Dobson Leaving Radio Show

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: James Dobson, Christian Right, Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Denver News

DENVER — James Dobson, the voice of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, will no longer host its flagship radio broadcast and is cu...

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Do You Rock With Jesus?

Brandon Mendelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Religion, Christian Right, SUNY Potsdam, Evangelical Christians, Jesus, Religous Right, Comedy News
Brandon Mendelson

Trooper, Slightly Imperfect, Pablo, The Dirty Italian, and I were forced to go to a “Transfer Orientation” a day after arriving at SUNY Po...

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Moses vs. Jesus: Who is America's Prophet?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Bible, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving, Jesus, George W. Bush, Liberty Bell, Christian Right, Pilgrims, Statue of Liberty, Moses, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce Feiler

The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.

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Ted Haggard Opens Up To Colorado Springs Independent: "I'm Here To Be Faithful To Me"

The Colorado Springs Independent | Bill Forman | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

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...And if I said the things that the therapists have said to me, some people out there would read it as me giving an excuse, which I don't want to do....

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America Needs A True Revolution Of Values

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Evangelical Christians, United Nations, Secession, Green, Green Business, Obama, Health Insurance, Green Energy, Fundamentalists, Fascism, Tax Day Tea Party, Values Voters, Mike Huckabee, Values, Green Technology, Republican Party, Health Care, Tea Party, Carrie Prejean, Jim Demint, Fascist, Environmentalism, Christian Right, Green Living, Barack Obama, Values Voters Summit, Michele Bachmann, Martin Luther King, Family Values, Health Care Reform, Environment, Green News, Value Voters Summit, Bill O'Reilly, Healthcare, Republicans, Marvin Gaye, Politics News
David A. Love

Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- Reds to Beds

Chip Berlet | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Homosexuality, Values Voters, Populism, Family Values, Evangelical Christians, Sociology, Anti-Abortion, Christian Right, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Sex Education, Politics News
Chip Berlet

There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.

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Roots of Right Wing Populist Rage -- Realignment

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christian Right, Right Wing, Populism, Evangelical Christians, Right-Wing Populism, Sociology, Politics News
Chip Berlet

It is neither accurate nor useful to see the current Right wing as one gigantic top-down, corporate run, astroturf, revolt of ignorant wingnuts.

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Teaching to the Choir on Marriage

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Marriage, Birth Control, Christian Right, Teen Sex, Evangelical Christians, Sex Education, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

Opposing sex is such a losing battle that some advocates are proposing, if not an actual retreat, at least an advance in a new direction.

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- the Christian Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Christian Right, Right Wing, Values Voters, Right-Wing Populism, Values Voters Summit, Right Wing Rage, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Many of the ideas in the Political Right ignore about 50 years of social science -- but not in their book. Or on the TV they watch. Or the radio they listen to. Or the magazines they read.

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Irving Kristol's Alliance With Anti-Semites

Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jerry Falwell, Jews, Conservatives, Evangelical Christians, Irving Kristol, Christian Right, Israel, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Max Blumenthal

The story of one of Kristol's most momentous maneuvers, the brokering of a tactical alliance between Jewish neoconservatives and openly anti-Semitic evangelicals, has been omitted from his obituaries.

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Fox and MSNBC Reporters at Values Voters: Rude, Disruptive, Lazy

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Values Voter Summit, Fox News, Christian Right, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Values Voters, Markos Moulitsas, Media News
Chip Berlet

While liberals and leftists keep laughing at them, the Christian Right will be busy trying to craft a last laugh -- and their track record is nothing to sneer at.

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Health Care Reform Debate A Boon To Focus On The Family And The Christian Right

The Washington Post | Jacqueline L. Salmon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: James Dobson, Health Care, Christian Right, Obama, Focus on the Family, Gary Bauer, John Boehner, Denver News

The Christian right, facing questions before the presidential election about its continuing potency as a force for cultural and political change, has ...

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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Influence Of Religious Right Fading, Recession Taking Toll

Center For American Progress | Lester Feder | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

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The recession is taking its toll on the conservative movement, and religious right leaders' intellectual rigidity is helping to put a nail in the coff...

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Watch Out What You Pray For

Adam Neiman | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Koran, Religion, The Bible, Torah, Millennials, Gospel, Christian Right, Obama Anti-Christ, Western Civilization, Barack Obama, Peggy Lee, Politics News
Adam Neiman

The Christian right prayed for the end of the world. Sure enough, they got the end of their world. They prayed for a savior -- and got one in spades.

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Explaining The Nation's Non-Reaction To Gay Marriage

Dan Pashman | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Right, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Pat Robertson, Politics News
Dan Pashman

As people start to see that New England hasn't turned into Sodom and Gomorrah, they're becoming more comfortable with the notion of same-sex marriage.

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Barack Obama and the Fear of God

Ed Kilgore | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Religion, Christian Right, Pluralism, Liberalism, Notre Dame, Christianity, Obama, Conservatism, Politics News
Ed Kilgore

In his Notre Dame speech, by insisting on the spiritual validity -- indeed, necessity -- of doubt, Obama is repudiating on religious grounds the very idea that appeals to Revelation should have presumptive value in political debates.

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Palin v. McCain, Round Two

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Meghan McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Olympia Snowe, Bristol Palin, Christian Right, National Council for a New America, Frank Rich, Republican Party, Eric Cantor, Jeb Bush, Politics News
Nancy L. Cohen

Will the GOP continue as the zombie of American politics, returning to life after each purported death, more monstrous in each incarnation?

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Surprises from Liberty University: What I Learned as an Undercover Evangelical

Kevin Roose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell, Christian Right, Religious Tolerance, Liberty University, Evangelicals, Politics News
Kevin Roose

When I stepped on to the campus of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.

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Sam Stein

James Carville: If GOP Abandoned Christian Right, "Their Party Would Crumble"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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Democratic strategist James Carville warned on Monday that if the Republican Party were to abandon its decades-old alliance with the Christian Right, ...

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Newsweek is Wrong: Christian America is as Strong as Ever

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Turkey, Prop 8, Religion and Politics, Christian Right, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Elated by Obama's election, we forgot that we have won a battle but not the war. The far Christian right pushes on, fighting to ban the teaching of evolution, stem cell research, and gay marriage.

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