Putting A Halt To The Religious Right's Anti-Gay Rhetoric
America's values are clear. Why then does the religious right continue to dominate the national conversation? It is time for us to put this nonsense to rest.
America's values are clear. Why then does the religious right continue to dominate the national conversation? It is time for us to put this nonsense to rest.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 12.20.2011
Bryan Fischer spoke to thunderous applause at the recent Values Voter Summit. That he was so well received should frighten those of us who care about liberty and justice in America.
Alvin McEwen | Posted 12.13.2011
Thanks to this past weekend's Values Voter Summit, I am learning that I am not an ordinary gay American. Apparently I am Darth Vader.
Jeff Malet | Posted 12.13.2011
Gay marriage, abortion, religion and the upcoming presidential election dominated the discussion at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. on October 7-8, 2011.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D. | Posted 12.13.2011
The real sin at the Values Voter Summit was not homosexuality or transgender identity but the idolatry of so-called "family values." Speakers exhibited a remarkable disregard for what the Bible and Christian theology actually say about marriage and family values.
Peter Montgomery | Posted 12.12.2011
Two days of speeches from presidential candidates, congressional leaders, and Religious Right activists painted a clear picture of where they'll try to take the country if they are successful in their 2012 electoral goals.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 12.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- A reckless, selfish mob is on the loose in southern Manhattan, its values out of step with ordinary Americans and cleaved from the princ...
Posted 12.08.2011
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has been declared the winner of the 2011 Values Voter Summit Straw Poll, garnering 37 percent of the vote. Herman Cain f...
Slate | Posted 12.08.2011
Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the 2011 Values Voter Summit, a comeback of sorts, and return to the usual pattern of highly-organized con...
Posted 12.07.2011
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain was warmly received Friday at the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., and he refused to engag...
Mark Potok | Posted 12.07.2011
Starting today, a number of prominent public figures will be attending and speaking at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of socially conservative activists in Washington. But just what kind of values are they promoting?
Michael B. Keegan | Posted 12.06.2011
I and others have often criticized you for abandoning your principles when it is politically convenient, but I hope in this instance you will prove us wrong. Bryan Fischer deserves to be a marginalized figure, not a celebrity embraced by the mainstream GOP.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
The religious right offered a hesitant embrace of the Republican Party's new "Pledge to America," with several groups saying they are happy the GOP in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
The most anticipated speaker at the 2010 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. was newly chosen Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, who...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: In an afternoon session, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum also stressed that social issues need to be pushed along with economic ones...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands of conservatives will be coming to Washington, D.C. this week for one of the biggest religious right conferences of the year: the annual Val...
Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the final events of the Values Voter Summit was a Saturday breakout session on "the new masculinity," a wide-ranging topic that one speaker use...
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday afternoon, MSNBC reporter Brian Mooar was interrupted and harassed while giving a live report from the floor of the Values Voter Summit, a w...
Joseph Ward III | Posted 12.21.2011