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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

Archive, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 25, 2015

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

Alex Theodoridis, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, conducted a survey last fall…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 20, 2015

Rand Paul, Religious Skeptic?

By Sarah Posner

Rand Paul appeared on the Daystar television network earlier this week, sitting for an interview…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 16, 2015

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

To many Israelis, the world of Christian Zionism is largely hidden from public view. But…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 12, 2015

What Do Christians Think About the Netanyahu Speech?

By Sarah Posner

Earlier this week, reacting to the faux controversy over President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast remarks,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 10, 2015

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

In June, 2011, when Roy Moore was flirting with a run for president, he paid…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerFebruary 6, 2015

If The National Prayer Breakfast Is Apolitical and Nonsectarian, Why Is It Used to Question Obama’s Faith?

By Sarah Posner

Many conservative commentators are apoplectic over these remarks by President Obama at the National Prayer…

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedFebruary 4, 2015

Netanyahu’s Speech, Lane’s Trip, and the Impossibility of Boycotts

By Sarah Posner

Will Democrats boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on March 3? Why didn’t Republican…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJanuary 29, 2015

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

Rachel Maddow broke the news last night that Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s Director…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedJanuary 27, 2015

Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore Is Back With His Constitution-Defying Tricks

By Sarah Posner

Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, best known for his flouting of…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJanuary 27, 2015

The Bid to Turn Pastors into Politicians

By Sarah Posner

“I saw that the skills of a successful politician are the same skills of a…

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