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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

Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderNovember 9, 2009

Pro-Choice Groups Livid Over Passage of Stupak Amendment

By Sarah Posner

Groups had compromised with anti-choice ideologues to gain passage of broader health reform measure rewarded with biggest rollback of reproductive rights in decades.

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Politics/LawNovember 8, 2009

Politics, Not Religion, At Heart of Health Care Reform Wrangle on Abortion

By Sarah Posner

Despite repeated compromises from pro-choice Democrats, anti-choice Dems threaten to kill health care reform unless all their demands are met.  

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Politics/LawNovember 6, 2009

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

Claim that alleged shooter took orders from the Muslim Brotherhood straight out of the Islamophobia playbook.

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Politics/LawNovember 4, 2009

Campaigns of Omission

By Sarah Posner

How not talking culture war turned yesterday’s elections.

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Politics/LawNovember 4, 2009

Rick Warren Won’t Denounce Proposed Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

But megachurch pastor says he severed ties with Ugandan ally in 2007.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawNovember 4, 2009

Spiritual Healing in Health Care Reform

By Sarah Posner

The Lion of the Senate’s history with the Christian Scientists.

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Politics/LawNovember 3, 2009

The Sordid Past of Ralph Reed

By Sarah Posner

His Faith and Freedom Coalition is mobilizing for Bob McDonnell in Virgina. But is he wanted?

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Politics/LawNovember 3, 2009

Religious Right Very Much Alive in Tomorrow’s Elections

By Sarah Posner

Not dead yet. Again.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderNovember 2, 2009

Bart Stupak’s Demand: What It Would Mean

By Sarah Posner

Explaining the pro-life “no federal funds for abortion” in health care demand.

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Sexuality/GenderOctober 30, 2009

Jim Wallis Rejects 1996 Pro-Life Declaration

By Sarah Posner

But is he pro-choice?

 

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