Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional
While conservatives are celebrating today’s Supreme Court decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway as a crucial…
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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.
Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group
(This post has been updated.) Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism,…
Read MoreSecular As Kids, Religious As Adults?
At Vox.com, Dylan Matthews argues (with charts) that the retention rate among people raised with no religion…
Read MoreOn The Kerry Apartheid Comment and the Cycle of Chutzpah
Secretary of State John Kerry, not knowing he was being taped at a meeting of…
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Conservative Christians Disgusted With Palin’s Religious Talk
Sarah Palin’s baptism-by-waterboarding comment at the National Rifle Association this weekend has disgusted Christians across the spectrum, both for…
Read MoreWhy Cliven Bundy Wasn’t A Religious Right Hero
Phillip Bump asks why Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson became a hero of the religious right, and why the rancher…
Read MorePoor, Persecuted Dinesh D’Souza
Disgraced conservative pundit claims politically-motivated prosecution in campaign finance case.
Read MoreBrits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking
The story seems to be a tailor-made rejoinder to a commonly heard complaint from American…
Read MoreBrits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking
Cameron kicks up a firestorm with Easter remarks on Christianity.
Read MoreWhite House Easter Prayer Breakfast Gets Benediction By Gay Bishop
How far we have come in six years.
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