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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter. RSS feed Email

OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerAugust 19, 2014

Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

The Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, which last year featured former President George W. Bush at…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerAugust 13, 2014

The “Libertarian Moment” Wouldn’t Exist Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

Ed Kilgore takes issue with Robert Draper’s New York Times Magazine piece exploring whether the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Israel-Palestine, Politics/Law, Sarah PosnerAugust 12, 2014

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

The polarization of American Jews has increased with each large-scale eruption of fighting between Israel and Palestinians. With each escalation there has been a shift of pro-two-state solution activists to the left; at the same time, though, the right becomes strengthened and entrenched.

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 25, 2014

A Rabbi And An Imam Write Together About Israel and Gaza

By Sarah Posner

Via Emily Hauser, I was alerted to this Joint Statement on Israel and Gaza by Imam…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedJuly 25, 2014

Will Anti-LGBT Government Contractors Have A RFRA Claim?

By Sarah Posner

Religiously-affiliated government contractors, responding to President Obama’s executive orders barring discrimination by federal government contractors based…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 24, 2014

Obama’s Next Contraception Coverage Accommodation Won’t Satisfy Litigants

By Sarah Posner

The Obama administration plans to tweak its accommodation under the Affordable Care Act for religious…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 21, 2014

No Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

In fact, there was overwhelming religious support for the executive order, minus the exemption.

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OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderJuly 18, 2014

Obama Won’t Allow Religious Exemption for LGBT Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

According to the Huffington Post, President Obama will sign an executive order on Monday barring…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderJuly 17, 2014

The Real Strategy Behind Hobby Lobby We’ll See Going Forward

By Sarah Posner

In the following clip from The Posner Show, Sarah and Columbia Law School’s Kara Loewentheil discuss how…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 15, 2014

Pressure Grows on Obama to Reject Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

Sixty-nine faith, civil rights, women’s, LGBT, secular, and other organizations sent a letter to President…

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