Interest in Thomas Jefferson never seems to fade. Our third President was a multi-faceted Founder who helped guide the early United States to codify religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Two centuries after Jefferson left the presidency, he is still the subject of competing claims about his public policy and...
(12) Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 5:16 PM
Some in the Christian right have a memory problem. If I was diagnosing it, I would call it amnesia or maybe denial. They have forgotten who they are and whence they came.
Christian reconstructionist Gary North has no such amnesia. He has been a fellow traveler with the Christian Right...
(1) Comments | Posted July 13, 2011 | 11:06 AM
At the beginning of July, Focus on the Family rebroadcast a speech by David Barton, titled the Founding of America. In the address, Barton, history adviser to GOP Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, sought to make the case that institutions of American government have become hostile...
(67) Comments | Posted June 9, 2011 | 12:36 PM
Last week, Chuck Colson used his Breakpoint radio show and column to promote the theory that one can prevent homosexuality by altering parent-child relations. To prevent male homosexuality, Colson wrote, "early intervention, in which the boy's father learns how to be both strong and...
(9) Comments | Posted May 12, 2011 | 4:37 PM
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This week nearly 2 million people from around the world have signed online petitions urging Uganda's politicians to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The bill, introduced by MP David Bahati in October 2009, would make all same-sex intimacy punishable by life...
(2) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 11:43 AM