Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right
Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype…
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By the Way: James Dobson Departs the Scene
As the old guard retires, a generational challenge emerges for the Christian Right. Who can lead a movement whose constituency no longer agrees with its core tenets?
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Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated
While it won’t be the same as it ever was, an Obama presidency will give the Religious Right an opportunity to bask in the glow of martyrdom and seize the mantle of underdog, while it raises hundreds of millions of dollars for its political campaigns and the never-ending ‘culture wars.’
Read MoreRDPulpit: Pro-Slavery, Anti-Gay, Similar Theology
While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn’t end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.
Read MoreFaith, Politics, and Fruitcakes
Was Obama’s interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a “fruitcake” position as Dr. James Dobson called it?
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By the Way: Revolting Evangelicals
Conservative evangelicals plan to protest for the right to endorse candidates from the pulpit; they forget that their tax-free existence is a right, not a privilege…
Read MoreMcCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals
Like Bush in 2000 Sarah Palin is delivering a clear message to conservative evangelicals, who get her call for women to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands’, fathers’ and pastors’ authority…
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By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain
Evangelicals meet in Denver to pump fists for McCain; the old leadership wasn’t all that was missing…
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By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?
An expert witness in the case against the affable Roy Moore recalls a meeting during which they tangled over the First Amendment.
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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