Sarah Posner

Last night’s Last night’s exit polls showed Mitt Romney barely edging out Mike Huckabee in cornering the evangelical vote, 34-29%. About 40% of the Republican electorate in Michigan self-identifies as born-again or evangelical, but as I’ve argued before, not all of them hate Mormons, not all of them are as staunchly conservative as Huckabee on […]

Earl Paulk, televangelist and former pastor to the now almost defunct Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Atlanta, was charged with perjury yesterday, for lying under oath in a lawsuit brought by a former congregant, Mona Brewer, who charges that he forced her to have sex with him over a fourteen year period. In sworn […]

On a conference call with reporters today, On a conference call with reporters today, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones asked Mike Huckabee if he’s a Christian Reconstructionist. (Christian reconstructionists believe, in a nutshell, that the Constitution should be replaced with Old Testament biblical law.) Huckabee denied that he is, adding, “I’m not really one that […]

Bruce Prescott, Executive Director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists and proprietor of the Mainstream Baptist blog, writes that Mike Huckabee’s response in the Republican debate last night in South Carolina about his endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1998 Family Statement was a lie. Specifically, Huckabee was asked about the portion of the statement that requires […]

Three Republican members of Congress — Frank Wolf of Virginia and Congressional Pro-Life Caucus co-chairs Chris Smith of New Jersey and Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania — are in Israel this week lobbying for an abortion ban there. Israeli press coverage of the visit did not mention Smith’s 2004 comparison of abortion to the Holocaust. Instead, […]

As was the case in Iowa, the exit polling firm that provides data to all the major networks, cable news outlets and the Associated Press, did not ask New Hampshire Democrats if they were evangelical, further enabling the extremist conservative evangelicals with the very loud voices to assert that they represent all evangelicals voters. Moderate […]

Picking up on Picking up on Tom‘s post below, since Huckabee won in Iowa and McCain may well prevail in New Hampshire, I’ve been wondering whether the Republicans will end up with a McCain-Huckabee ticket. In a way, it seems like a clever move: Huckabee looks like the only candidate who can consolidate the religious […]

Although you could pinpoint the turning point of Mike Huckabee‘s candidacy at the 2007 Values Voters Summit in October, where he won the straw poll, I see it a bit earlier, back in the summer, when he was endorsed by evangelical publisher Stephen Strang and New Man magazine. There’s a new crew of evangelical vote […]