Christian right

The God conservatives worship

by News Sources 06.19.2012

Paul Froese writes: In recent decades, “big tent” conservatism has seemed on the brink of collapse, its poles buckling under competing constituencies with “values” voters in one corner pitted against fiscal conservatives in the other. Discussions among academics and media pundits suggest these are two distinct categories of Republicans—the former made up of mainly working-class [...]

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Texas’s war on history

by News Sources 05.18.2012

Katherine Stewart writes: Don McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Board of Education from 2007 to 2009, is a “young earth” creationist. He believes the earth is 6,000 years old, that human beings walked with dinosaurs, and that Noah’s Ark had a unique, multi-level construction that allowed it to house every species of animal, including [...]

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Don’t mention the Word of the Lord to the party that loves Jesus

by News Sources 01.03.2012

Brad Reed writes: Since this past Christmas season coincided with the final campaign push before the Iowa caucus, every Republican candidate for president worked extra hard to out-pander one another in claiming that God is supportive of his or her particular flat-tax plan. But you have to wonder watching some of the Republican debates and [...]

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The excommunication of Ron Paul

by News Sources 12.30.2011

Steve Kornacki writes: When you’re running near the top of the polls, it’s inevitable that your opponents will gang up on you. But there’s something different about the nature of the attacks Ron Paul is now facing – and, potentially, about their implications. In the past few days, three of Paul’s rivals – Newt Gingrich, [...]

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Christmas fading in the Holy Land

by News Sources 12.25.2011

Khaled Diab writes: In the land that put Christ in Christmas, Christianity is shrinking. Less than a century ago, Christians comprised nearly 10 percent of the population of Palestine (now Israel and the Palestinian territories). In 1946, the figure was around 8 percent. Today, Christians make up about 4 percent of the West Bank’s population, [...]

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Advertisers shun ‘All-American Muslim,’ yielding to pressure from Christian extremists

by News Sources 12.11.2011

The Religion News Service reports: Lowe’s, the national hardware chain, has pulled commercials from future episodes of “All-American Muslim,” a TLC reality-TV show, after protests by Christian groups. The Florida Family Association, a Tampa Bay group, has led a campaign urging companies to pull ads on “All-American Muslim.” The FFA contends that 65 of 67 [...]

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Israeli gov’t warns Israelis in U.S. not to marry Americans but come home

by Paul Woodward 11.30.2011

Philip Weiss found this: an Israeli government advertising campaign that’s sure to alienate a lot of American Jews. The series of ads includes one that shows the look of dread on the faces of Israeli grandparents when they hear their grand daughter say she’ll be celebrating Christmas. I happen to live in a part of [...]

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Pastor Beck preaches in Jerusalem

by News Sources 08.25.2011

The Guardian reports: The temperature may have dropped a little in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, but it was more than compensated for by the heat produced by Glenn Beck as he brought his “Restoring Courage” rally to the Old City. The former Fox News presenter and devout Mormon stood at a podium beneath the gunmetal [...]

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Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway massacre

by News Sources 08.02.2011

In a Washington Post op-ed, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League compared the Islamophobia that led Anders Behring Breivik to massacre 77 innocent people in Norway to the anti-Semitism that resulted in the Holocaust. Ali Abunimah welcomes the fact that Foxman is echoing what he and many others have pointed out in recent [...]

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The challenge of religious pluralism in America

by Paul Woodward 10.27.2010

Legal scholar, Stanley Fish, writes: The conflict between religious imperatives and the legal obligations one has as a citizen of a secular state — a state that does not take into account the religious affiliations of its citizens when crafting laws — is an old one…; but in recent years it has been felt with [...]

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CAMPAIGN 08: An inability to recognize ourselves in one another

by Paul Woodward 01.21.2008

Islamofascism’s ill political wind By James Carroll, Boston Globe, January 21, 2008 In contrast to the way militant zealotries of other religions have been perceived, there is a broad conviction, especially among many conservative American Christians, that the inner logic of Islam and fascism go together. Political candidates appeal to those Christians by defining the [...]

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ANALYSIS: Christian conservatives are not of one mind

by Paul Woodward 11.08.2007

Social conservatives fracture as Robertson endorses Giuliani By Steven Thomma and Matt Stearns | McClatchy, November 7, 2007 Televangelist Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani’s campaign Wednesday, a surprising embrace that underscored the divisions among Christian conservatives about the field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. By itself, Robertson’s support of the former New York [...]

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FEATURE & OPINION: End of times for the Christian right

by Paul Woodward 10.28.2007

The evangelical crackup By David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, October 28, 2007 Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could almost see the Promised Land. White evangelical Protestants looked like perhaps the most potent voting bloc in America. They turned out for President George W. Bush in record numbers, [...]

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ANALYSIS: How the Christian right could defeat Giuliani

by Paul Woodward 10.20.2007

How the Christian right could defeat Rudy — and make Hillary president By Alex Koppelman, Salon, October 19, 2007 One of Rudy Giuliani’s chief attractions to Republican primary voters is supposed to be electability. “We’re going to need the strongest possible Republican who can win in every state,” the former New York City mayor said [...]

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