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Can You Tell Me How To Get [Back] To Sesame Street?

Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 11.13.2009 | 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, Politics News

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 New Gay Apartheid

Jim David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Gay Rights, Gay, Gay Marriage, Matthew Shepard Act, Matthew Shepard, Wingnut, National Organization for Marriage, David Mixner, Anti-Gay, Maine Gay Marriage, Religious Right, Gay Apartheid, Politics News

Whatever church those people do go to, they are taught hate and fear, not the Christian love I grew up with. They both hate gays and fear them.

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Rebiblican Stealth Strategy Loses Big in Washington State, Wins Big on East Coast. Why?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: King County Executive, Going Stealth, Religious Right, Susan Hutchison, Washington State, New Media, Sarah Palin, Politics News

When Rebiblicans (Republicans) pose as moderates and change agents, they have just exposed soft tissue.

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The Missing Story in Democracy Corps' Analysis of the Conservative Right

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Authoritarianism, Democracy Corps, President Obama, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Republicans, Politics News

The study is certainly worth reading in full, but I wanted to address Democracy Corps' dismissal of a "racial element" in this hard-core right wing opposition to Obama.

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Speaking Evangelese: Tips for Politicians

Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Evangelical Code Language, Christian Code Language, Politics News

Advice for candidates from a former fundie. One thing I learned not long after finishing my Spanish degree was -- never volunteer to translate anythi...

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It's Time To End (Deadly) "Religious Freedom"

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Freedom, Murder, Politics, New York Times, Religious Right, Fiath Healing, Politics News

Why aren't parents who kill their children for God not serving life sentences? Because of our crazy ideas about religious freedom that on so many fronts trump not just common sense but the rule of law.

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Susan Hutchison -- Washington State's Sarah Palin?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Washington State, Susan Hutchison, Bible, Evangelicals, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Next week, "nonpartisan" Susan Hutchison will be vying for the role of County Executive in King County, Washington. Is she a stealth right-winger and closest fundamentalist as some are saying?

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Conservative Edit of Bible Follows Time Honored Precedents

Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Christianity, Biblical Criticism, Higher Criticism, Conservative Bible Project, Conservapedia, Christianism, Politics News

When conservatives squawk about the Bible having been twisted along the way by political bias, our first response should be -- they're right.

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I Was A Teenage Anti-Abortionist

Carl Capotorto | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Far Right, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Abortion Rights, Radical Right, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

The far right is daily being chased back into the margins, where it belongs. All that's left of their movement is a relative handful of confused, misguided know-nothings being manipulated and led by a cynical elite.

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Jon McNaughton Painting Shows Crippled Kids, Soldiers With Jesus; Lefty Journalists, Professors With Satan

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Satan, Liberal News Reporter, Jesus Paintings, Jon Mcnaughton "One Nation Under God", Jon Mcnaughton Painting, Jesus, Jon McNaughton, Religious Right, One Nation Under God, Conservative Painters, Media News

This is a wild one. Artist Jon McNaughton of Utah has created a painting inspired by a vision he received during the 2008 elections. The painting...

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When Freedom Is a Dirty Word

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Care, James Dobson, Carl and Raylene Worthington, Religious Right, Republicans, Family Values, Religious Freedom, Politics News

The religious right, the gun-carrying paranoids all have one thing in common: they are taking a libertarian/religious view to an extreme that will unhinge this country.

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

Chip Berlet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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

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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Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Jerry Falwell, Glenn Beck, Senator Edward Kennedy, Jeff Sharlet, Sam Tanenhaus, Max Blumenthal, Francis Schaeffer, Politics News

Today the right wing America haters actually are doing to America what no "illegal" immigrants ever do: work to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a theocracy.

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The Religious Right is Swiftboating Same Sex Marriage in Maine

Karen Ocamb | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prop 8, American Association of Political Consultants, Question 1 in Maine, Chino Blanco, Marriage Equality, Gavin Newsom, Same Sex Marriage, James Dobson, Religious Right, Tony Perkins, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Religious right professionals are using religion as an excuse to perpetrate lies and deception. That's what happened in California and that's what is now underway in Maine.

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Exclusive Video: Conservatives Endorse My New Book, "Republican Gomorrah" (Sort Of)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cpac, Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Christianity, Religious Right, Ralph Reed, John Ziegler, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Max Blumenthal, Republicans, Media News

Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the radical Right's leading figures have more in common than just the power they command within GOP ranks.

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Of Bush's Iraq Delusion and Obama's Dilemma

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Biblical Prophecy, Gog and Magog, Government Accountability, Troop Withdrawal, Middle East, Fanaticism, Self-Deception, Green Zone, Religious Right, Iraq, Obama, Bush Lies, Bush, Chirac, Politics News

The longer President Obama avoids confronting the perverse legacy of the war, the more distorted our decisions and strategy will be.

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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

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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From Death Panel to Death Spiral

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Obama, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, Financial Collapse, Sex Scandals, Tarp, Town Hall Debate, Free Market Capitalism, Rush Limbaugh, GOP Debate, TARP Money, Healthcare Debate, Whig Party, Habeas Corpus, Obama Hitler, Medicare Bill, Bull-Moose-Party, Bill Oreilly, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Free Market, Medicare, Mark Sanford Affair, Terry Schiavo, Republicans, Politics News

The GOP is not the party of small government and lower taxes. They are the Party of borrow and spend, big government and sex scandals.

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How the Religious Right is Infiltrating the Democratic Party: Part 1

Bruce Wilson | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Samuel Rodrigez, Third Way, Faith in Pubic Life, Religion, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Democratic Party, Politics News

Along a wide range of fronts, the American religious right has been infiltrating, influencing, befuddling, and neutralizing the Democratic Party and the American left for decades.

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An Open Letter To The "Respectable" Evangelical/Republican Party Leadership

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Refor, Christianity, Gay Rights, President Obama, Religious Right, Evangelicals, Politics News

The bubble of unreality and mythology "moderate" evangelicals have chosen to live in is now coming back to haunt you.

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I Accept Rep. Randy Forbes's Challenge for Someone to Debate Him

Chris Rodda | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Congress, H. Res. 397, Historical Revisionism, American History, Barack Obama, Randy Forbes, Politics News

Let's debate your resolution clause by clause and see how well that very impressive looking list of footnotes you keep boasting about stands up to scrutiny.

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Believer, Beware "Gets" The Funny (And Poignant) Side of Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Writers, Books, Transgendered, Jeff-Sharlet, Religious Right, Comedy, Gay Issues, Living News

Believer Beware is laugh out loud funny, touching, irreverent and yet, in deeper ways, pays religion the ultimate compliment: it's worthy of scrutiny, debate, hate, and love.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Influence Of Religious Right Fading, Recession Taking Toll

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

Read More: Christians, Christian Conservatives, Religion Influence Politics, Religious Right, Christian Right, Religious Right Fading, Religion Politics, Church and State, Politics News

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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