The Religious Right vs. Every Day Christians
Some televangelists come into so much money and notoriety that it corrupts them. History is filled with similarly corrupted leaders. In my little church, we are not power brokers. We are Christians.
Some televangelists come into so much money and notoriety that it corrupts them. History is filled with similarly corrupted leaders. In my little church, we are not power brokers. We are Christians.
236.com | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and John McCain are now tied two for two in the race to see who can get the most inflammatory Pastors in their corner. This week we were ...
Chris McGowan | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
John McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't accept endorsements from popular leaders of the Christian Right, many of whom have taken con...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has had his Rev. Wright Problem, but John McCain has created for himself a serious Rev. Wrongs Problem.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
So John McCain has finally sent John Hagee and Rod Parsley the way of Jeremiah Wright. But you can be sure this isn't the last we'll hear of any of these names.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Around 10PM ET, McCain rejected the endorsement of another right-wing pastor, Rod Parsley, "an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam ...
Stephanie Miller | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media
Today's Right Wing World from The Stephanie Miller Show features verbal atrocities from John McCain's spiritual advisor, The VERY Reverend Rod Parsley.
Sarah Posner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Bush, Cheney, and their band of neoconservative outlaws who led us into one catastrophic war and might lead us into another are pleased to have these faith-based cheerleaders on the sidelines.
FireDogLake | Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
You may know that Rod Parsley, apocalyptic preacher in the Columbus, Ohio area, is a big McCain supporter. Well, so is Ollie North, known subverter of...
ZP Heller | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Rod Parsley draws no distinction between Muslims and violent Islamic extremists, as he blamed the entire religion for the attacks of 9/11 saying it's "a generational call to arms" to destroy Islam.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
How is it that the Obama campaign has let the debate become about whether he transgressed rather than whether McCain did?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Despite the fact that John McCain and his surrogates have taken recent pains to try to dismiss concerns over the candidate's relationship with unendin...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Religious affiliations have proven, in the course of this campaign, to be a tricky business for politicians -- none more so than Reverend Jeremiah Wri...
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
McCain has allied with three of its most bigoted and hateful "spiritual" personalities: John Hagee, Rod Parsley, and (before his death) Jerry Falwell.
Open Left | Katie Halper | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Before Jeremiah "Obama's Pastor" Wright spews even more nonsense, and quotes even more ambassadors, we want to shed some light on the brilliant gems u...
Katie Halper | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
"Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist." - Pastor John Hagee
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
If it's not racism that's causing the disparity in media treatment of these preachers, then what is it?
Linda Hansen | Posted 03.16.2008 | Home
While a few eyebrows have been raised at the endorsements of Hagee and Parsley, there's been no public outcry. But when Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, dares speak ill of the United States all holy hell breaks loose.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
To read televangelist Rod Parsley's violent language as he encourages his readers to join the so-called culture 'war' is to come face-to-face with the violent rhetoric McCain will tolerate to win votes.
R.T. Eby | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home