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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

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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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Don't Mess With Me, David Barton

Chris Rodda | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Chris Rodda

Rather than just write about the lies evangelical David Barton told about me on his show, I decided to make a little video with iMovie.

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Family Values, Schmamily Values: The GOP's Bristol/Levi Hypocrisy

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Comedy

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Warren Holstein

Well it seems that the latter-day Joseph and Mary trophies of the religious right-wing pro-life movement have been tarnished and their lackluster bronze has turned a gangrenous green.

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Catholic Extremists Swiftboat Sebelius

Cristina Page | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Cristina Page

The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.

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Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Comedy

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Warren Holstein

Following in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, many states are now advocating an end to what many boozers and businessmen alike deem antiquated puritanical pap. The Christian Right is not amused.

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Celebrating Valentine's Day at Jerry Falwell's College

Kevin Roose | Posted 03.17.2009 | Living

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Kevin Roose

Instead of celebrating Valentine's Day, my classmates at Liberty University celebrate the National Day of Purity, a conservative Christian holiday designed to promote abstinence before marriage.

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How Rick Warren's Invocation Made a U.S. Army Officer "Hate Himself"

Chris Rodda | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Chris Rodda

One decorated officer, a man who repeatedly risks his life, could not muster the courage to resist the pressure of his "serious and committed born again Christian" commanding officer to applaud Rick Warren.

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Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to...

David Sterritt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

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David Sterritt

What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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Rupert Russell

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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The Last Time We Vote For Bigotry

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

The time has come to put our votes and our money where our mouth is and no longer tolerate the malleable bigotry of those who profess to be our friends, but also say we are not quite worthy of the same rights.

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Christian right regroups after Obama victory

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

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Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Amer...

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Evangelical Leaders Using God Like a Hired Gun

Christine Wicker | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

The evangelical Christian mullahs are declaring that Obamageddon is at hand. One warned that people who hate Christianity will take over the country if Obama is elected. "Life as we know it will end!"

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The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party

Jane Devin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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Jane Devin

Under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The price is now being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust.

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Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

AP | ERIC GORSKI and RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of t...

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On Colin Powell

Etan Thomas | Posted 11.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Etan Thomas

The Republican Party has transformed what used to be a common thread uniting just about all Americans, into an exclusive department of the GOP.

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Religious Right Trolls "Horror Stories" to Oppose Gay Troops

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Nathaniel Frank

I set out to learn if reason or prejudice was behind the gay ban in the military.

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Why Clay Aiken's Coming Out Matters

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Andrew Belonsky

Aiken's outing is different in two notable, intrinsically entwined ways.

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The Women in McCain's Life

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

In 10 days Sarah Palin's standing has crashed an awesome 24 points, with a clear majority now having a negative opinion of the Alaska Governor. This k...

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Palin's Handlers, Part Two

Nina Burleigh | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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Nina Burleigh

Liberty Legal Institute is not the only national right wing Christian group on Palin's speed-dial. All these big-time "legal" foundations beavering away in Palin's camp doesen't sound so small-town to me.

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Bigoted Obama Waffles; Bigoted Values Voter Conference

Chip Berlet | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

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Chip Berlet

The decried waffle packaging accurately reflected the preoccupations of the conference speakers and attendees, who addressed the same topics as did the waffle-box makers -- and in similar language.

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Why I Believe (Specifically) That Sarah Palin Is A Really, Really Bad Idea

Brad Listi | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home

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Brad Listi

Palin gives me the creeps the way Bush and Cheney give me the creeps. Similar ideology. Similar whiffs of God-fueled certainty, incompetence, callous indifference, culture war. But I can do better than that...

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The Divided States of America: One Nation Under Two Gods

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Haimoff

These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

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Palin's Religious Beliefs Must Be Explored

Chip Berlet | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

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Chip Berlet

Does Sarah Palin share with millions of other evangelicals a nightmare vision of an approaching global battle between Godly Christians and evil Satanic agents of the Antichrist in the End Times? We need to know if Palin shares the vision of an apocalypse soon.

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