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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 PosnerApril 8, 2015

Will Rand Paul Break the Religious Outreach Mold?

By Sarah Posner

Rand Paul just got an F. No, it wasn’t for his second nationally televised condescension…

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Archive, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderApril 3, 2015

Why The Ongoing RFRA Battle Is About Far More Than Wedding Cakes

By Sarah Posner

Now that both Indiana and Arkansas have enacted their Religious Freedom Restorations Acts, with each…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerApril 1, 2015

Arkansas Governor Admits RFRA Bill Is Not Like Federal Version

By Sarah Posner

In a press conference this morning, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said he would…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerMarch 31, 2015

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

Jeb Bush is defending Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s faulty defense of his state’s recently enacted…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerMarch 30, 2015

How Indiana’s New RFRA Expands the Federal RFRA

By Sarah Posner

Over the weekend, Indiana’s Republican Governor, Mike Pence, insisted that the new Religious Freedom Restoration…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerMarch 18, 2015

Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

By Sarah Posner

I’ve been writing over the past couple of weeks about a split between Republican evangelicals (and,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerMarch 16, 2015

The Battle for the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

In a new profile of supposed evangelical kingmaker David Lane, the New York Times’ Jason…

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OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderMarch 11, 2015

Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Why Won’t Republicans Listen?

By Sarah Posner

Lifeway Research, which conducts surveys on evangelical attitudes on a variety of issues, released a new…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Sarah Posner, StoriesMarch 9, 2015

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

When speaking to religious audiences, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker likes to remind people that he…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 27, 2015

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the upcoming Purim holiday to justify the need…

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