Sarah Posner

The San Antonio Express-News reported yesterday on what might otherwise be an unremarkable legal decision: a federal court ruled that John Hagee’s Cornerstone Christian School was not entitled to pursue its claim that the University Interscholastic League (UIL), an organization for athletes attending taxpayer-funded public schools, denied Cornerstone admission based on religious discrimination. What was […]

Over at the Washington Post’s On Faith blog, moderators Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham ask if John McCain should renounce Rod Parsley because he called Islam a “false religion” that must be “destroyed?” The responses from the blog’s panel are varied, but generally urge looking at the broader landscape rather than focusing on one statement […]

In this week’s FundamentaList, find out how Republicans courting their own inflammatory preachers have the Jesus Shield — but that Barack Obama, with his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, does not. Read it to find out how the right-wingers get a pass from the press, while left-wingers are “Other-ized.” At Salon, Glenn Greenwald, who […]

Yes, mark this down in the annals of absurd hyperventilating about the last century’s demons, as Yes, mark this down in the annals of absurd hyperventilating about the last century’s demons, as Ken Blackwell, who once compared gay people to barnyard animals, denounces today’s Barack Obama speech. Blackwell, who lost his own race to become […]

With renewed attention on John McCain’s “spiritual guide,” Ohio’s neo-Pentecostal preacher Rod Parsley, the editors here have republished my 2005 expose of the televangelist, “With God on His Side.” The piece details Parsley’s rise to the national political stage after campaigning with Bush-Cheney Ohio campaign co-chair and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for Ohio’s 2004 […]