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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

Sarah PosnerMarch 27, 2012

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

The latest bloggingheads.

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Politics/LawMarch 27, 2012

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

Late last month, after federal authorities arrested a Tennessee pastor on charges of aiding and abetting an international parental kidnapping, students at Liberty University Law School saw one of their exam questions come to life.

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Politics/LawMarch 26, 2012

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

A report from the principally Catholic anti-contraception rally in Maryland reveals a constituency whose calls for religious freedom appear to be at the cost of freedom for all others. 

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Sarah PosnerMarch 24, 2012

Court Rules Religiously-Based Restrictions in HHS Contracts with Bishops Violate Establishment Clause

By Sarah Posner

First Amendment prohibits government favoring a particular religious view.

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2012, Politics/Law, Sarah PosnerMarch 20, 2012

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

A political, not theological, co-belligerence.

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Sarah PosnerMarch 20, 2012

“Get Out” of America Preacher Is Longtime Perkins Pastor

By Sarah Posner

Called Perkins “one of the godliest men I’ve ever known.”

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Politics/LawMarch 19, 2012

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

Where Bush would sign something because anti-choice was his base, Perry actively instigates. A report from the frontlines of the kinder, gentler scorched-earth campaign against abortion and birth control in Texas.

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Sarah PosnerMarch 19, 2012

Perkins and MSNBC

By Sarah Posner

Should the Family Research Council president be banned?

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Sarah PosnerMarch 18, 2012

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

A nun and a Catholic OB/GYN talk to RD.

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Finally, a Poll Gets the Contraception Question Right
Sarah PosnerMarch 15, 2012

Finally, a Poll Gets the Contraception Question Right

By Sarah Posner

Public Religion Research Institute asks the right question.

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