Evangelicals debate whether Obama has “a spirit of the Antichrist” and conservatives claim Rick Warren will give Obama space to defend his “gospel of condoms.”
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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ENDORSEMENTS AND THE EVANGELICAL VOTE.
At Beliefnet’s God-o-Meter blog, Dan Gilgoff misapprehends the connection between evangelical leader endorsements and Christian Right voter mobilization. He notes that at Christians United for Israel’s (CUFI) “Night to Honor Israel,” at the Washington Convention Center Tuesday night, John Hagee, to great applause, pledged to never again endorse a presidential candidate, and wonders whether that […]
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WHY CAN’T CHARLES GRASSLEY BE A RNC DELEGATE?
The increasingly Christian right-dominated Iowa Republican Party has banned Sen. Charles Grassley from being a voting delegate at the Republican National Convention. The speculation — first fueled by the Washington Times — is that they’re freezing him out because of his investigation of televangelists. Grassley later denied that his own party retaliated against him, and […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 43)
McCain avoids talking about birth control, Dobson may back McCain, and why does Rick Warren get to host the “Compassion Forum”?
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CONSERVATIVE WEB SITE SAYS “OBAMA HAS BEEN SPONSORED BY AL QAIDA.”
Ah, here it is — one of the first attempts to charge that the infamous New Yorker cover actually depicts the truth about Barack Obama. Conservative media darling Brigitte Gabriel, author of the book Why They Hate and founder of anti-Muslim organization The American Congress for Truth, tells the Christian right American Family Association’s (AFA) […]
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NEW POLL SHOWS JEWS DON’T REALLY LIKE HAGEE.
The evidence is mounting: John Hagee is not a very popular person among American Jews. A new poll commissioned by J Street, the pro-Israel lobby that advocates for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and diplomacy rather than military intervention with Iran (see TAP‘s interview with founder Jeremy Ben-Ami here), found that 51 percent […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 42)
Duping conservative evangelicals is easier than using a computer, Huckabee on TV, and Hagee angers his flock by moving to the center.
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Focusing on The Family
Journalist Jeff Sharlet went undercover to infiltrate the secretive Washington, D.C., religious organization, The Family. Sarah Posner asks him what they want, and how they go about getting it.
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WHY OBAMA IS REFRAMING ABORTION AND JUDGES.
Following up on Dana’s post about Obama and abortion, the major reason Obama has not been emphasizing his support for reproductive rights or pro-Roe Supreme Court justices is his outreach to religious voters. Obama is not alone among Democrats, of course, in couching abortion as a moral issue, rather than focusing on women’s rights. But […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 41)
Obama shifts emphasis on reproductive rights, “abortion reduction” has some limitations, and an update on Sen. Grassley’s investigation of televangelists.
