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Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…onal Review as its publisher in 1957. By the mid-1950s, then, there were a number of conservative periodicals, publishing houses, and radio shows. And they weren’t just isolated outlets scattered across the country. They were intimately connected through overlapping donors, personnel, and relationships. Regnery was an early sponsor of the Manion Forum. Manion sat on the board of National Weekly, which oversaw National Review. Editors at Human Even…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…gelicals, Mormons, and Catholics to the polls in support of the Republican ticket at percentages the GOP hasn’t seen in years. Combined with vice-president-elect Mike Pence’s proud history of support for anti-LGBT, anti-women “religious freedom” legislation, it’s clear the incoming administration owes a debt to white religiously conservative America. Anyone unwilling to see that and brace for the ways that debt will be repaid is living under a roc…

Are Evangelicals Truly Separating Themselves from the GOP?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…es minded” evangelical Christians are flocking away from the GOP in strong numbers—have they really moderated their political thinking? Sure, many evangelical churches, led by that 18-29 year old group, have dedicated themselves to such liberal causes as the environment and even moderated their positions on gays and lesbians—but overall, the evangelical landscape hasn’t changed all that much. Leaders at 44 percent of the congregations called their…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…the Republican base. So why pander? We should recall that the McCain/Palin ticket has said they would not sit down with the prime minister of Spain, a member in good standing of NATO. And yet, they go out of their way, as do the Democrats, to meet with Israel’s surrogates in Washington regularly (each candidate spoke at a zealously pro-Israel AIPAC meeting and of the five groups Palin met with on a recent trip to Washington, one was AIPAC) and to…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…umstances, and who has changed his mind after Sarah Palin was named to the ticket—accused Obama of “deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview,” and having a “fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution.” Last week, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink.com ran a piece by Robert George that claimed that Obama “is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever”, “the most extreme pro-abortion member of th…

Race, Religion and the Colin Powell Endorsement

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d yet one more indication that the “base” is shifting and the McCain-Palin ticket is wobbling in the shockwaves of that seismic event. What Powell said to Tom Brokaw was telling, most of all for his quiet composure and lack of animus. What was very clear, however, was that this career military man is completely dismayed by what the Republican establishment has permitted his party to become. Race-baiting and religion-baiting are of a piece in Powel…

Conservative Black Preacher Leads Crusade Against Hate Crimes Legislation

By Bill Berkowitz

…“Justice Sunday II” rally; in 2008 he not only supported the McCain/Palin ticket, but was a frequent and vocal supporter of California’s Proposition 8 and co-authored “Personal Faith Public Policy” with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. In late December, after then President-elect Barack Obama chose Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation, the senior pastor of the 3000-member Hope Christian Church in Prince George’s Count…

Is the Theologian an Antiquated Relic of a Dying Institution?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…the creation of a more just church and society was worth the price of the ticket. Yet two of the more interesting interventions came from Jack Fitzmier, Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion, and Tony Jones, an independent author, blogger and emerging church entrepreneur. Fitzmier challenged our very raison d’etre as academic theologians. In an era marked by faltering seminaries and divinity schools, limited graduate programs in…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…bout either candidate, they came through in a big way for the McCain/Palin ticket. Barna points out that “unlike other polls, [it] classif[ies] a person as an evangelical based upon their answers to nine questions about their theological beliefs. [While] [m]ost national surveys simply ask people if they consider themselves to be evangelical, born-again or a committed conservative Christian.” However, The Barna survey also examined the voting behav…