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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

RD Blog, Sarah PosnerSeptember 3, 2015

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

UPDATE: Following this morning’s hearing, Kim Davis has been taken into custody by U.S. Marshals…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerSeptember 1, 2015

Kentucky Court Clerk, A “Professing Apostolic Christian,” Questions Legal Authority

By Sarah Posner

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who continues to refuse to issue marriage licenses to…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedAugust 27, 2015

Trump and the Bible Dodge

By Sarah Posner

Donald Trump is rejiggering the way the Republican Party does religion. Give Trump credit for…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedAugust 20, 2015

More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

By Sarah Posner

Today over 130 civil rights, religious liberty, educational, feminist, and LGBT rights groups wrote a…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah PosnerAugust 19, 2015

How Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

I went on vacation for two weeks, during which Donald Trump continued to be Donald…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesAugust 6, 2015

How a Fringe Theocratic Movement Helped Shape the Religious Right As We Know It

By Sarah Posner

A Q&A with Julie Ingersoll on the history of Christian Reconstructionism as told in her new book: Building God’s Kingdom.

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedJuly 29, 2015

Will Huckabee’s Ovens Comment Be the End of His Candidacy?

By Sarah Posner

Alright, Governor Huckabee, since you asked. . . After Mike Huckabee, who portrays himself as…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 29, 2015

Has Donald Trump Broken the Religious Right?

By Sarah Posner

That’s a question our very own Anthea Butler posed to me in a bloggingheads episode…

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Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump
Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 23, 2015

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody wants to tell you why evangelicals like Donald Trump….

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 21, 2015

Immigrant-Bashing, Indifference, and the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that…

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