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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 PosnerSeptember 6, 2011

Bachmann’s Constitutional Flameout

By Sarah Posner

Questions at the South Carolina candidate forum.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 31, 2011

Huntsman, the End-of-Empire Conservative

By Sarah Posner

The latest bloggingheads.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 29, 2011

Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books

By Sarah Posner

In asking “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Politico notes he’s reading a book by a Southern Baptist minister.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 17, 2011

Tea Party=
Religious Right=
Unpopular

By Sarah Posner

More data on what we’ve been telling you.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 8, 2011

Perry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote

By Sarah Posner

The Response vs. Bachmann’s worldview.

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Politics/LawAugust 8, 2011

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 8, 2011

Hatfield, Early Republican Critic of Religious Right,
Dead at 89

By Sarah Posner

Questioned anti-communist Christian crusaders of the Cold War era.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 4, 2011

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

Host of Perry prayer rally under the microscope.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 2, 2011

Rick Perry’s Gay Marriage D’oh!

By Sarah Posner

Religious right sweetheart has to backpedal on gay marriage gaffe.

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Sarah PosnerAugust 1, 2011

Questions for GOP Debates

By Sarah Posner

The latest bloggingheads.

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