Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books
In asking “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Politico notes he’s reading a book by a Southern Baptist minister.
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The Pundits and the Dominionists
What is the media getting, and not getting, in its coverage of the religious right in politics?
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Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist
Last week, Lisa Miller, religion writer and editor (Newsweek and the Washington Post) filed an op-ed in which she fulminated against “the left” and journalists who have raised concerns about the influence of dominionist thinkers on Republican presidential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.
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Bachmann Staffer Likens
Rick Perry to King Saul and Bachmann to anointed
King David
Has been linked to arms dealing in Uganda.
Read MorePerry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote
The Response vs. Bachmann’s worldview.
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Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally
The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars.
Read MoreInside the American Family Association
Host of Perry prayer rally under the microscope.
Read MoreRick Perry’s Gay Marriage D’oh!
Religious right sweetheart has to backpedal on gay marriage gaffe.
Read MoreQuestions for GOP Debates
The latest bloggingheads.
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Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion
Texas Governor Rick Perry says of his August 6 “call to prayer for a nation in crisis” that we need to call on Jesus because “some problems are beyond our power to solve.” Here, John Adams is resurrected to provide guidance.
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