Religion Dispatches
…me Minister”; and “If Livni does become PM [Prime Minister], will she take military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the window of time between the U.S. elections in November and the inaugural in January?” Last week, the Family Research Council announced “that that the European Court of Human Rights has granted permission for the organization to defend Ireland’s ban on the practice of abortion.” The organization will be represented by t…
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…ent, and maybe it matters to you. McCain has noted several times that the “number one issue… that people should [use to] make a selection of the president of the United States [is] will this person carry on in the Judeo-Christian principle that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?” A person’s faith is, according to McCain, an “important part of our qualifications to lead.” Bracketing his dubious grasp of constitu…
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…ade no attempt whatsoever to outlaw abortion. (They did, however, pass the Military Commissions Act, which authorized the use of torture.) I wonder if that came up in the course of the deliberations in Denver. Although the outcome of the meeting, the endorsement of McCain, was predictable, the Denver gathering also illustrates the travails facing leaders of the Religious Right. Aside from Schlafly, none of the old-line leaders of the Religious Rig…
Read More…ade no attempt whatsoever to outlaw abortion. (They did, however, pass the Military Commissions Act, which authorized the use of torture.) I wonder if that came up in the course of the deliberations in Denver. Although the outcome of the meeting, the endorsement of McCain, was predictable, the Denver gathering also illustrates the travails facing leaders of the Religious Right. Aside from Schlafly, none of the old-line leaders of the Religious Rig…
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…Public Record on June 17, Chris Rodda, a Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an expert on historical revisionism and a frequent contributor to the blog Talk2Action, discusses the rebroadcast of a segment of an HDNet Dan Rather Reports program titled “Christian Soldiers,” (originally aired on October 2, 2007), which features Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF and Stephen Mansfield. “When his l…
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…s, finance them, and create a conservative vision: advocating building the military and a muscular foreign policy; supporting free-market economics including deregulation, privatization and tax cuts for the wealthy, and getting aboard the so-called family-values bandwagon. Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the late Jerry Falwell, recognized that Weyrich had been “a pioneer of the religious right and the Reagan revolution.” “H…
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…t whatever disaster has occurred is the fitting punishment for the sins of military or scientific hubris. For all the hopefulness displayed in stories of reconstruction, there’s a sense that what has survived has been made pure in the crucible of cataclysm. And that, of course, is the approach of premillenial dispensationalists like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, whose Left Behind novels delight in meting out righteous punishment just as much as Wa…
Read More…hree talking points: “Stopping Iran,” “Stopping Hezbollah,” and “Providing Military Aid to Israel.” “Christian Zionism is an integral element of the most dynamic sector of the religious right, and John Hagee has been its leading figure since the death of Jerry Falwell and the semi-retirement of Pat Robertson,” Clarkson pointed out. “This episode will exacerbate the existing tensions between McCain and much of the religious right; and certainly dam…
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…Dobson compares the push for equal marriage rights in America to Hitler’s military conquest of Europe: Like Adolf Hitler, who overran his European neighbors, those who favor homosexual marriage are determined to make it legal, regardless of the democratic processes that stand in the way. Rather than saying explicitly that equal rights activists are violent, Dobson relies on his reader to remember that Hitler rose to power by burning down the Reic…
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…and declines in eight. However, the net effect has been an increase in the number of states in the moderate category. In this sense, the Christian Right has been ‘spreading out’ across the states, especially in the South, Midwest, and West. Thus, Christian conservatives have become a staple of politics nearly everywhere.” In short, John McCain’s personal preferences were irrelevant: his route to the presidency was only viable with the help of Chri…
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