Religious Right

The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends Toward Marriage Equality: The Conference of Moral Citizenship

Sylvia Rhue, Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2012

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This is why our founding documents protect both freedom of religion and freedom from religion -- otherwise, those who do not comply with the designated denominations doctrines would be determined to be heretics.

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Inclusive Jesus (and Others at Wild Goose) Now on the West Coast Too

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.22.2012

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I'm still hungry for the community faith can provide when its not busy judging others. I want to share that good news. And Wild Goose Festival is the place I've discovered that shares that vision.

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Is Barack Obama a 'Born Again' Christian?

Stephen Mansfield | Posted 05.22.2012

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As he stepped into office, President Obama was without a primary spiritual mentor, without a spiritual home and still bruised from the religious bludgeoning of the campaign. Some administration officials report that it was just at this moment that a change began.

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Are There Any Responsible Republicans Out There?

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.11.2012

The defeat Tuesday of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana in the Republican primary -- trounced by a Tea-Partier -- is one more nail in the coffin of the...

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2012 and Beyond: Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.07.2012

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We can't devise a successful electoral strategy for "The Left" -- meaning the forces of peace, social/economic justice and sustainability -- unless we face a simple fact: We're getting our asses kicked.

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The Idolatry of Politics and the Promise of the Common Good

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.03.2012

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How we live and what we do for the common good is much more important than how we vote. Political affiliation with candidates, parties, and structures is waning -- especially among young people -- and that's good news.

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Walking The (Catholic) Plank

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012

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Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?

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The Evangelical Left In History And Today

Craig S. Keener | Posted 04.19.2012

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Given evangelicalism's diverse history and its undefined future, it is both inaccurate and unhelpful to stereotype all "evangelicals" as the religious right. Today, stereotyping evangelicalism as a whole only fortifies the influence of the political right.

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Getting Their Mitts Around Romney: The True Test of GOP Voters' Moral Mettle

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.22.2012

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Heir apparent GOP nominee Mitt Romney wants to govern a country that he doesn't completely trust with his money, and he represents a religion many in ...

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Do We Need Pluralistic Politics Deeply Informed By Faith?

Christopher Cocca | Posted 04.16.2012

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Why is it that advocacy positions influenced by deeply held religious beliefs about poverty, hunger, disease, human dignity and related issues are seldom, if ever, critiqued from the left?

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Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)

Brian D. McLaren | Posted 04.14.2012

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What do you do when you aren't comfortable being outspoken, aren't comfortable being silent and aren't comfortable being uncomfortably in between? For me, that's meant a foray into comic short fiction

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Sex, Teens and Risk: Conservatives Have It Wrong

James Peron | Posted 04.11.2012

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Abstinence-only programs don't exist "for the kids," or because of risks. They exist almost wholly because Republicans -- and Democrats in Tennessee -- are trying to placate a religious minority, even if it means exposing teens to greater harms.

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The Equal Rights Amendment Finally Arrives

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 04.11.2012

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If America wishes to serve as an international example of liberty and just governance, we must ensure that all citizens are afforded the same rights and that institutionalized discrimination is made illegal.

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Republicans, Democrats and the "Crazy Gap"

Chris Ladd | Posted 04.09.2012

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Occupy Wall Street is little more than a footnote, having failed to wield any noticeable influence in democratic politics. The Tea Party, on the other hand, spread through the Republican biosphere like the zombie virus from The Walking Dead.

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GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project Demands Honesty from the Religious Right

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.21.2012

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GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project is not about silencing anyone but having an honest debate. And you can't have an honest debate when one party is being deceptive in terms of their goals and their true feelings about the community they oppose.

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A Wild Goose Second Chance for Refugees From Politicized Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.21.2012

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Wild Goose has connected and re-connected me to people I'd written off. I'd presumed I knew all about "them." I did not.

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The Great American Ovary Debate: 2012's Super Wedge Issue

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.21.2012

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Conservative groups in particular found power and leverage with so-called wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage in the past. With contraception, however, they've awoken the sleeping giant voting majority who don't want their ovaries to be debated.

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"Get Out!" Santorum, Perkins and the Religious Right's Vision of America

Peter Montgomery | Posted 05.20.2012

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Even if one feels charitably inclined toward Pastor Terry, it must be acknowledged that anyone hearing his remarks could quite fairly assume that he was equating Americanism with Christianity.

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Sadly, It Seems Sandra Fluke Wasn't The First Woman Falsely Accused of Being a Prostitute by an Intimidated Man.

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.16.2012

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It seems the Bible never referred to Mary Magdalene as a prostitute. A Catholic Pope did.

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Conservatives Really Do Hate Markets

James Peron | Posted 05.13.2012

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The religious right may talk about "markets," but in the end they get their way through regulations, controls and legislation. Whether they like to admit it or not, the religious right is really the regulating right. They do hate markets.

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Belief Alone Is No Basis for Public Policy

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.07.2012

Conservatives have spent generations accusing liberals of moral relativism and "anything goes" indulgence in their feelings or whims. But is a belief any less arbitrary of a foundation for the giving or taking away of people's rights?

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Gingrich In Video Which Claims the Constitution Is Based On the Old Testament

Bruce Wilson | Posted 05.04.2012

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The reality is that the former Speaker of the House, who led the stealth Republican takeover of the House and Senate in the 1994 election, has been a strong partisan of the religious right for decades.

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Republicans Push 'Religious Liberty' Attack on Obama

Peter Montgomery | Posted 04.30.2012

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House Republicans kept up their attacks on President Obama's supposed "hostility" to religious liberty with a Judiciary Committee hearing that lasted well into the evening on Tuesday.

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The "Intellectual" Gurus of the Extreme Santorum/Romney Religious Right That the Media Has (mostly) Ignored

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.30.2012

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Romney is a fake religious right "conservative." But the fact that he has to pretend to be to the right of the Pope on "social issues" tells us all we need to know about the intellectual climate inside today's Republican Party. How did the Republicans get to be this way?

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Assault and Pepper

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.29.2012

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That Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and the intolerant far right Republican Party don't seem to care about what America actually is -- that the government must be blindly secular to allow religious freedom for all -- that's what so stupid.

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