Sarah Posner

Karl Rove on the possibility of Tropical Storm Gustav becoming a hurricane and making landfall during the Republican National Convention: “The Republicans can’t seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather,” said Rove, a FOX News analyst. “I know this is being thought a lot about […]

There have been conflicting reports about whether John McCain has decided on the running mate he’s slated to announce tomorrow, but there seems to be agreement that Mitt Romney and Joe Lieberman — both of whom would be gifts to the Democrats — are reportedly still in the running. The Council for National Policy, the […]

In today’s Wall Street Journal piece about the Democrats and abortion, “Tiptoeing to the Right on Abortion”, Jim Wallis claims such a rightward shift is required for Democrats to win the election, asking: “Can the Democrats count votes?” Yes they can. The sidebar graphic to the story shows that 54 percent of the American public […]

Cameron Strang, editor and publisher of Relevant magazine, has decided not to give a benediction at the Democratic National Convention Monday night as scheduled. Strang, a registered Republican until he switched his affiliation to independent this week, has been courted and consulted by the Obama campaign as a means of reaching out to younger evangelical […]

Tim defends Jim Wallis and his abortion reduction rhetoric as a better alternative to the culture wars and bringing new voters into the Democratic Party. But pro-choice advocates and feminists have always championed minimizing unintended pregnancies through safe, effective, affordable birth control and comprehensive sex education, and supporting women and their families through pay equity, […]

With its stepped-up focus on faith, this year’s Democratic National Convention has slated a number of religious leaders to offer benedictions and invocations, including Joel Hunter, the Florida megachurch pastor who was once slated to be president of the Christian Coalition before he decided they were too nasty. Hunter, a registered Republican, has been at […]

Tim thinks I exaggerate Rick Warren’s role in the presidential forum Saturday night. He’s not, as Tim suggests, just some pastor who decided to invite the presidential candidates to a forum at his church, and somehow got them to accept. He’s one of the most influential evangelicals in America, according to virtually every measure of […]

Yes, he did. In an interview with Beliefnet’s Dan Gilgoff after his civic forum, Rick Warren said that “If they [evangelicals] think that life begins at conception, then that means that there are 40 million Americans who are not here [because they were aborted] that could have voted. They would call that a holocaust and […]