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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner is a Prospect senior correspondent and associate editor of Religion Dispatches, where she writes a blog about religion and politics. The author of God's Profits: Faith Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (PoliPoint 2008), her work has also appeared in the Nation, Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and other publications.

Recent Articles

The FundamentaList (No. 8)

Republicans open investigation of televangelists, Huckabee gets anointed, evangelicals against a two-state solution, and the politics of prosperity preaching

Sarah PosnerNov 07, 2007

1. Republican Minority Opens Investigation of Prosperity Televangelists

The FundamentaList (No. 7)

Halloween Edition! The very scary anti-gay movement, Huckabee spooks secular conservatives, and the undead evangelical Christian right.

Sarah PosnerOct 31, 2007

1.Not Dead Yet

David Kirkpatrick's cover story in Sunday's Times magazine is all the rage this week. In it he asks The Question that has surfaced periodically for the past 30 years: Is the Christian right dead?

The FundamentaList (No. 6)

"Values voter" edition! The attendees co-opt the language of the civil rights movement, award Giuliani a few points for trying, and wonder if hot-shot endorsements really matter.

Sarah PosnerOct 24, 2007

1.Spinning Straw Polls into Gold and Hoping for a Miracle

Of course the big news from the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit last weekend was that Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee won the straw poll. Whether the landslide of support delivered by the summit attendees will translate into a Huckabee ascendancy, however, remains to be seen. It will be tough for him to overcome his gaping fundraising disadvantage in time for the early primaries. That's of no concern to Huckabee's supporters, though; as one of them put it to me, "we've seen bigger miracles happen."

I AM NOT GAY, BUT I HAVE BEEN GAY.

Sarah PosnerOct 19, 2007

That from the lips of Randy Thomas of Exodus International, the group that purports to "convert" people from being gay, at the press conference today in opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), pending in Congress, that would add GLBT people as a protected class to federal employment discrimination laws. Other speakers included Bishop Harry Jackson, FRC president Tony Perkins, and Rick Scarborough, author of Liberalism Kills Kids.

WHERE WERE RON PAUL'S VAUNTED VOLUNTEERS?

Sarah PosnerOct 19, 2007

You have to give it to Ron Paul. He didn't try to dance around his position on the war, and stuck with his call to bring the troops home (to "protect our borders.") That wasn't selling with the FRC crowd, which has responded enthusiastically to other speakers' calls for a victorious end to the war. It's one of those -- er, sanctity of life issues.

--Sarah Posner

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