A possible explanation for the Churchill images in McCain’s most recent ad, Craig Unger on the relationship between neocons and fundamentalists, and has the evangelical center arrived?
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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NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS PLEDGE “BATTLE ROYALE” OVER TELEVANGELIST INVESTIGATION.
Via Pat Robertson‘s Christian Broadcasting Network: The National Religious Broadcasters Association is holding its annual convention this week in Nashville, Tennessee. NRB members are in an uproar over what they call an attack on religious freedom.On the surface, it is a convention filled with new technologies and new ways to reach people with the Gospel […]
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MCCAIN AT THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY.
At BeliefNet’s God-o-Meter blog, Dan Gilgoff has a preview of John McCain‘s upcoming appearance at the secretive conservative brain trust Council for National Policy. For Republican presidential candidates, an appearance at the CNP is considered essential for consolidating the support of all three wings of the now-shaky coalition between national security hawks, free market and […]
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MORE ON MCCAIN AND HAGEE.
Over at the brand-new site Religion Dispatches, I have a piece about John McCain’s embrace of televangelists John Hagee‘s and Rod Parsley‘s support: When Hagee and Parsley are trotted out as shining examples of Christian leadership by Republican politicians, their critics often define them by their easily documented diatribes against Satan, the liberal media, other […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 24)
Why Russert won’t ask McCain to denounce Hagee, what’s next for Huckabee, Tony Perkins’ “New” Evangelical Agenda, and the Catholic Question.
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MORE ON OBAMA’S JESUS.
Jacques Berlinerblau, at the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog, wonders why secular press and opinion hasn’t spoken out about Barack Obama‘s speech at the University of Brownsville last Friday. In the speech, which was at a gathering of evangelical and Catholic clergy, Obama talked about how “I was introduced to someone named Jesus Christ. I […]
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OBAMA’S WWJD MOMENT.
Yesterday Barack Obama said that the Sermon on the Mount supported his view that same-sex couples should have the same legal rights as married couples (although they shouldn’t be allowed to get married). The right wingers are all over him for it, naturally. I’m curious: does this help him with the voters he clearly was […]
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MCCAIN SPIRITUAL GUIDE PLAYED THE BARACK HUSSEIN CARD.
On his Center for Moral Clarity web site a couple of weeks ago, John McCain “spiritual guide” and self-described Christocrat Rod Parsley wrote: Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. and Republican John Sidney McCain III are cruising along in their bids to win their respective party’s nomination for President of the United States. Tuesday night’s results […]
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MCCAIN’S APOCALYPTIC SUPPORT.
John McCain picked up the endorsement yesterday of San Antonio televangelist and Christians United for Israel (CUFI) founder John Hagee, who cited the candidate’s opposition to abortion and “support” of Israel. Even though Hagee hosted Mike Huckabee for a guest sermon at his church last December, his support for McCain is not a huge surprise. […]
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PRAYING FOR VOTES.
Following up on Scott’s post about the Amy Sullivan interview over at Salon (and I, also, have not yet had a chance to read Sullivan’s book), I wanted to point out another peril of Democratic religious outreach, beyond the abortion question. In the interview, Sullivan worries about Democrats “making fun” of George Bush or John […]
