Shocker: Tea Partiers More Evangelical, Socially Conservative
New Pew survey adds more data to the Tea Party religion.
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Apocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening
When the repeal of DADT was on the table many like John McCain predicted disaster.
Read MoreFormer Navy Chaplain Worries Ending DADT will End “Gay Exorcisms”
Klingenschmitt claims to have exorcised the demon of homosexuality from at least one servicemember.
Read MoreHow The Christian Right Understands The Constitution
The latest Bloggingheads TV dialogue.
Read MoreTea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch
Religious right leaders scramble to frame Tea Party victories and consolidate the Tea Party energy for the “pro-family agenda.”
Read MoreTea Party Religion: State of Belief Radio
Tea Party religion.
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The Brutality of the American Eden
Last week’s six-hour PBS documentary, God in America, wasn’t really about God in America. Nor was it about religions in America. Following a fairly conventional narrative in mainstream discourse (albeit not one adopted by the contemporary Christian right), the series…
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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time
Last week it was discovered that several powerful republicans at the heart of two sex scandals—Sens. John Ensign and Tom Coburn and Gov. Mark Sanford, among others—are members of The Family, reputed to be an “aggressively anti-democratic” Christian movement quietly steering us toward a “theocentric” state. Three scholars discuss The Family with the author. Sparks fly.
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Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?
Glenn Beck’s efforts to become a religious leader for Tea Party America has a lot of commentators discussing the feasibility of a Mormon convert leading a wary evangelical and Catholic right in a faith-driven cause.
Read MoreThe Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap
Religious basis and rhetoric around “limited government.”
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