Health Care Ruling Big Issue for Religious Right
Virginia court rules individual mandate unconstitutional, but some Christians already have an exemption.
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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.
Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List
Magazine appears unaware of what “right” means.
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Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown
Sullivan praises God for homosexuality, while Gallagher demands pro-LGBT rights Catholics repent.
Read MoreThe Bush Obama Faith-Based Office
At least $140M in stimulus money went to faith-based groups.
Read MoreOpposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains
Evangelicals recruited chaplains who opposed homosexuality. Should the Senate concern itself with chaplain opposition to DADT?
Read MoreShould The Senate Listen To A Court-Martialed Chaplain on DADT?
Letter signed by radical anti-gay activists claims 40 million followers oppose DADT repeal.
Read MoreConservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”
The tradition of prayer events for Muslim staffers on the Hill dates back to Newt Gingrich’s days as Speaker.
Read MoreThe Pope’s “Condom Sense”
Benedict’s remarks, clarified today, represent a “big shift.”
Read MoreObama’s Supposed “Religion Dilemma” and American Exceptionalism
Countering the right’s narratives is not an “uphill battle.”
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Catholics for Equality Decries USCCB Election as Yielding to “Increasingly Uncharitable Demands of the Pope”
Election of Dolan as president and Kurtz as vice-president of USCCB evidence of “increased Vatican influence in US politics.”
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