The GOP Has a God Problem

Parker: It's time for a break-up with the Christian Right

By Gabriel Winant, Newser User

Posted Nov 19, 2008 11:00 AM CST

(Newser) – After getting death threats for dissing Sarah Palin, Kathleen Parker is stirring up trouble in the right-wing ranks again. The Republican Party is going to go the way of the Shakers if it doesn’t lose some of that old time religion, she writes in... Read full story »

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