Whether Dobson was forced out or not, a "new face" has been in the cards.
Is the religious right stawlart making a play for pro-life Democrats?
At Conservative Political Action Conference, Focus shows how the Tebow ad is its new evangelism.
Where James Dobson used the stick (sometimes literally), his successor Jim Daly prefers the carrot.
A short list of commercials and events with religious underpinnings....
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Hillary Clinton the feminist vanishes.
"Pro-life" Super Bowl ad sparks controversy about network advertising policies.
Due to California's budget woes Texas' book buying may effect the content of science textbooks.
Play to Extinction: Religious Groups Unite Against Predatory Gambling
What could James Dobson’s Focus on the Family and the League of Women Voters possibly have in common? They’re both members of a coalition to raise awareness of the devastating effects of, and to block, state-sponsored casino gambling in Massachusetts.
By the Way: James Dobson Departs the Scene
As the old guard retires, a generational challenge emerges for the Christian Right. Who can lead a movement whose constituency no longer agrees with its core tenets?
Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?
Undermining Obama; The Haggards Play Oprah; Coral Ridge Ministries Makeover; Focus on the Family turns to plagiarist Tim Goeglein; GOP’s Taliban Fever; and AFA’s Project Push Back.
Praying Away the Gay: “This is What Love Feels Like?”
Prayers For Bobby, a new Lifetime TV movie, portrays the tragic struggle of a gay teen in a conservative Christian family and the family’s attempt to “heal” him. Predictably, the film was heavily criticized by the religious right.
Focus on the Family condemns "No Name Calling Week" in schools as a ploy by homosexuals to get people to accept them. How devious.
The Most Popular Stories of 2008
The numbers are in and you, the reader, have chosen your favorite RD stories of the year; from Rick Warren to AIPAC, Sarah Palin, Creationism 2.0 and the fabled “death” of the religious right.
RD News Round-Up—November 24, 2008: Religious Right’s ‘Obama Watch’; RaptureReady.com getting readier; Focus on the Family’s ‘I Stand for Christmas’ campaign; Proposition 8: The Aftermath; Huckabee’s revenge; Christian doctrine cures OCD?
RD News Round-Up: November 17, 2008: New surveys on the faith vote; Rev. Moon's plans for the UN; Jews to Mormons: lay off the dead; plus Jill Stanek, Tom Minnery and Joel Hunter
The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn't end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.
In the wake of James Dobson’s attacks on Obama’s Christianity, liberal evangelical Jim Wallis comes to the candidate’s aid. Is Wallis’ subsequent plea for a new Democratic position on abortion strategically timed?
Historical Revisionism Jujitsu: Religious Right Celebrates End of Interracial Marriage Ban
By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.
While the political focus of evangelicals shifts, mum is still the word on abortion.