Religious conservatives plan to start new organizing efforts outside the Republican Party and Mike Huckabee settles some scores from the 2008 campaign.
Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner’s coverage of religion and politics has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Week, and many others.
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The Fundamentalist (No. 57)
Religious conservatives plot takeover of Republican Party, atheists in the military ask Obama for protection from discrimination, and the culture wars get nasty in California.
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NOT ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE ANTI-GAY.
In the comment thread to the post about my piece on the main site, it looks like one commenter has drawn the conclusion that Obama is facing some sort of alliance with the religious right. Let me debunk that right now: in the course of his campaign, Obama made some overtures to religious right figures, […]
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Obama and Religious Voters
Barack Obama won more support among religious voters than recent Democratic nominees have, but that doesn’t mean narrowly targeted religious outreach is the best approach for future Democratic candidates.
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RELIGION AND THE ELECTION: A PRELIMINARY LOOK.
The tragic news casting a pall over the Obama victory last night is the passage of constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage in Florida, Arizona, and, it appears, California. In Florida, a state that went for Obama by a 51-49 percent margin, 62 percent of voters pulled the lever for the gay marriage ban. That […]
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ONE OHIO LAW PROFESSOR’S 62-HOUR EFFORT TO HAVE HER VOTE COUNTED.
Ruth Colker, a law professor at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, has documented her efforts to have her absentee ballot there counted, after records erroneously showed a “mismatch” between the year of her birth in the records and her actual birth year. The error — which Colker corrected ten years ago — dates […]
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ARE THE CULTURE WARS OVER? DON’T BELIEVE IT.
Peter Beinart says yes, that Sarah Palin is “the end of the line.” Mike Madden goes to Ted Haggard’s old church and predicts the heyday of the conservative megachurch is over. Not so fast — I’ve seen this movie before. Consider these historical examples of premature obituary-writing: in 1988, after Pat Robertson lost the Republican […]
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THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
I snapped this picture at a Sarah Palin rally in York, Pennsylvania this afternoon: Now these little guys were not dressed up for Halloween (although many kids, including Piper Palin, were), and they were most definitely on the youngish side for this crowd, which was probably about half folks I would peg at being over […]
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ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS’ LAST CALL ON PROP. 8: DOBSON JOINS THE PARTY.
On his radio show today, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson announced that he would be on hand at The Call in San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday as part of the last drive by anti-gay activists to rally support for California’s Proposition 8, which, if passed, would amend the state’s constitution to take away […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 56)
Even if McCain loses, the religious right isn’t going anywhere. In fact, a McCain defeat may actually strengthen their position in the party. The only question is who will lead them — probably Huckabee, Jindal, or Palin.
