O’Donnell Disowns Former “Ex-Gay” Associate
Either through luck or just a familial trait of pure stubbornness, I somehow managed to avoid getting involved with any “ex-gay” ministries…
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Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard
Republican-passed legislation monkey wrenches conservative opposition to Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.
Read MoreOn the Economy, it’s the “Keystone Kops” vs. the Democrats
Big Money is Pharaoh, average citizens are the Israelites, and you, you dear Democrats, you get to be Charlton Heston.
Read MoreEvangelical About-Face on SCOTUS Nominee Sexuality
Focus on the Family retracts its potential support for a nominee with ‘gay tendencies.’
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Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous
He threatens criminals and undocumented immigrants with impalement but he has ‘Republican values.’ Jonathon ‘The Impaler’ Sharkey’s declaration that he will seek the Republican nomination for president is just another human interest story for the media. But what does it say that his rhetoric and positions don’t deviate appreciably from the current level of discourse?
Read MoreTony Perkins Puts Foot Down After Republican Bondage Spending
No more money for the Republican National Committee.
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Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP
Despite resorting to demonization and dated paradigms, Max Blumenthal’s muckraking first book traces the fascinating history of the religious right and its web of gothic and aggressive conspiracy theories—making a convincing case that the Republican Party has been “shattered” by a right-wing religious movement.
Read More“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass
Does Rep. Wilson’s outburst before the president signal something deeper about the state of our national rituals?
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Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser
So long as the health care battle is focused on the model of market competition—the very notion that health care is best conceived as a for-profit industry—the whole debate is a non-starter. If a meaningful health care reform is to pass, Democrats and liberals will have to return to their social justice roots.
Read MoreProsperity Preacher Peddling “Death Panel” Myth
Shouldn’t a professed “health and wealth” preacher be concerned with health care? Apparently, politics get in the way…
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