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Paul Ryan: Obama Victory a Threat to Religious Freedom

The Republican vice presidential nominee warns that “Judeo-Christian” values are at risk if President Obama wins the election on Tuesday.

Posted on Nov 5, 2012 READ MORE


The GOP’s Religious Head Count

The Republican presidential primaries this year have turned into a religious census. There is little precedent in modern politics for the extent to which a state’s choice for a nominee has coincided so closely with how many of its ballots were cast by white evangelical voters.

Posted on Mar 21, 2012 READ MORE  |  3 COMMENTS



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To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant

The thousands of same-gender couples who have married in the few months since the California Supreme Court cleared the way are in fact married. The notion that a majority vote by people who are not party to these marriages of love, commitment, care and family will have the power to impose a divorce on these couples is flatly repugnant.

Posted on Nov 3, 2008 READ MORE  |  42 COMMENTS


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The Evangelical Rebellion

Mike Huckabee represents a new and potent force in American politics, and the neocons and corporate elite, who once viewed the yahoos of the Christian right as the useful idiots, are now confronted with the fact that they themselves are the ones who have been taken for a ride.

Posted on Dec 23, 2007 READ MORE  |  899 COMMENTS


A ‘Third Way’ for Liberals and Conservative Christians

You know the religious right is in trouble when some of its leaders threaten to bolt the Republican Party if it nominates a candidate who supports abortion rights. But the well-publicized warning directed against Rudy Giuliani earlier this month is decidedly not the most important sign that religious conservatives are facing the disintegration of their movement.

Posted on Oct 9, 2007 READ MORE  |  20 COMMENTS


God’s Only Party

The creator will campaign for a third-party candidate if Rudy locks up the GOP nomination. How do we know this? Well, it seems God whispered in the ears of certain evangelical leaders.

Posted on Oct 7, 2007 READ MORE  |  29 COMMENTS


Apocalyptic Times for the GOP Faithful

The party Jerry Falwell worked so hard to promote to white evangelical America may soon tear itself apart over one candidate who dares to be Mormon and another who is dangerously sane on gays, guns and abortion.

Posted on May 24, 2007 READ MORE  |  18 COMMENTS


Religious Conviction vs. Political Dogmatism

Evangelical Protestantism in the United States is going through a New Reformation that is disentangling a great religious movement from a partisan political machine. This historic change will require liberals and conservatives alike to abandon their sometimes narrow views of who evangelicals are.

Posted on Mar 15, 2007 READ MORE  |  19 COMMENTS


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Weekly Video Roundup

This week our selection of Truthdig-flavored videos includes a shocking short documentary on the evangelical war on evolution; a bird’s-eye view of perhaps the first ever avatar-attended virtual peace rally; and a troubling home movie of a U.S. Humvee engaging in bumper-car action in Baghdad.

Posted on Feb 9, 2007 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


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Weekly Video Roundup

This week’s installment of Truthdig-flavored videos includes a hawkish U.S. senator articulating his change-of-heart on the Iraq war; U.S. military officials abusing their rank and influence in an evangelical recruiting video; and Jon Stewart bidding goodbye—and good riddance—to the 109th Congress.

Posted on Dec 16, 2006 READ MORE  |  1 COMMENT


Book: Rove Called Evangelicals ‘Nuts’

That’s one of the claims in a new tell-all book by a Christian conservative former Bush administration insider.

Posted on Oct 12, 2006 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS


Poll: Evangelicals Less Popular Than Jewish Presidential Candidates

Among voters quizzed in an L.A. Times / Bloomberg poll, “21% said they would not vote for an evangelical Christian,” whereas only “15% said no to a Jewish presidential candidate.”

Posted on Jul 4, 2006 READ MORE  |  3 COMMENTS



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Air Force Eases Rules on Religion

In the wake of a nationwide petition drive by evangelicals, sectarian prayer and other such divisive elements are creeping back into the service. | story

Posted on Feb 11, 2006 READ MORE  |  1 COMMENT


86 Evangelical Leaders Join to Fight Global Warming

Finally! Evangelicals in the news for something unrelated to divisive social issues. | story

Posted on Feb 8, 2006 READ MORE  |  4 COMMENTS


Pat Robertson To Build Biblical Theme Park In Israel

Televangelist and other fundamentalists negotiating with Jewish tourism officials to erect complex by Sea of Galilee. story

Posted on Jan 4, 2006 READ MORE  |  3 COMMENTS


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