Talking About Religion Will Not Help Romney
Better to just ride out the Gingrich surge.
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Every Republican Candidate Should Have to Address Gay Rights Face-to-Face
It’s not just Romney that would look ridiculous.
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Gingrich IA Political Director Resigns after “Cult of Mormon” Comments Go Public
Debacle raises questions about readiness of Gingrich campaign.
Read MoreIowans for Life Denies Being Behind Anti-Gingrich Flyers
Flyers describe Gingrich as “pro-life fraud.”
Read MoreGingrich Signs Personhood USA Pledge
Opts for most radical definition of fetal personhood.
Read MoreGingrich on “Teh Gay”
Newt Gingrich seems to be getting his conservative Christian credentials all locked up.
Read MoreRepublican Candidates Face Mythical Gays
There was a time when politicians could get away with bashing gay people because they were invisible. That time appears to have passed.
Read MoreSC Southern Baptist Convention Head: Gingrich’s Adultery Okay, Romney’s Mormonism Not
The GOP has a mess on its hands.
Read MoreHow (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe
Marginal Republican presidential candidate previews shaming tactics of 2012.
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Making Fun of Mormonism
Planets! Tablets! Underwear! When some of America’s most celebrated pundits and public intellectuals talk about Mormons, these are the images that are summoned. Ironically in this “Mormon Moment”—signaled by a hit Broadway musical, polygamous housewives on TLC, and of course two Mormon presidential candidates—Mormons, long considered quintessential “outsiders” to mainstream American culture, today find themselves at the center of the American zeitgeist. Yet it is the Mormons’ supposed theological weirdness that is the centripetal attraction.
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