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  • September 2008

    • Clerics to Defy IRS, Endorse Candidates From Pulpit

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 25, 08 12:08 PM CDT

      Clerics to Defy IRS, Endorse Candidates From Pulpit

      (Newser) - Pastors from 22 states plan to purposely defy the IRS this Sunday by endorsing presidential candidates in their sermons, the LA Times reports. The so-called “pulpit initiative” aims to trigger a legal showdown, testing the constitutionality of the law forbidding such endorsements by tax-exempt groups. “There is nobody who will ever tell me what I can and cannot say from behind my pulpit,” said one reverend, “except the spirit of God.” More »

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      religion  • religious right  • IRS  • separation of church and state

    • Why Palin Is Mac's 'Meal Ticket'

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 17, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      Why Palin Is Mac's 'Meal Ticket'

      (Newser) - The number of enthusiastic Republicans have doubled in polls since John McCain picked Sarah Palin for his ticket, and Palin figures in slightly more news coverage than her running mate. That might be expected, but she is mentioned 10 times more than  Democratic counterpart Joe Biden. Tim Rutten offers up three reasons the hockey mom has become McCain's "meal ticket" in the Los Angeles Times . More »

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      John McCain  • Election 2008  • celebrity  • Sarah Palin  • religious right  • small towns  • nostalgia

    • How Did Dems Inherit Ozzie & Harriet Mantle?

      Slate  |  Sep 5, 08 5:31 AM CDT

      How Did Dems Inherit Ozzie & Harriet Mantle?

      (Newser) - The enthusiastic evangelical reaction to a working mother with an unwed pregnant teenage daughter on the GOP ticket highlights the dramatically changing face of conservative Christian America and could spell trouble for the Dems, Hanna Rosin writes in Slate . Evangelicals now actually score worse than the rest of America on the traditional values that preachers and conservative pundits laud, with families often failing to resemble the "oh-so-perfect" Obamas. More »

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      Sarah Palin  • abortion  • evangelicals  • religious right  • Christians  • conservatism  • family values

  • July 2008

    • Evangelicals Fall for Obama's Line

      American Spectator  |  Jul 29, 08 6:40 AM CDT

      Evangelicals Fall for Obama's Line

      (Newser) - Barack Obama talks such a good game that he may fool a sizable contingent of evangelicals into supporting him, David N. Bass writes in the right-wing American Spectator. "Unlike past Democratic presidential nominees, he's not schizoid when it comes to talking about his own faith (which, admittedly, is a clash between the bizarre and the watered-down)," Bass writes. More »

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      Barack Obama  • evangelicals  • religious right  • sex education  • abstinence  • Rick Warren  • reproductive rights

    • Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy

      New Republic  |  Jul 17, 08 2:23 PM CDT

      Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy

      (Newser) - “What can I say?” writes left-leaning Jonathan Chait in revealing his continued affection for John McCain. “Bush has lowered my standards.” Remember, McCain was once “the country’s foremost progressive champion”—battling the religious right and tax cuts while pushing immigration and anti-global warming advances. And while the old McCain is gone—having tacked hard to the right—Chait clings to an “affinity for the old codger.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • George W. Bush  • climate change  • religious right  • immigration reform  • tax cuts

    • Evangelicals' Sex Talk Has Hidden Agenda

      Salon  |  Jul 8, 08 7:50 PM CDT

      Evangelicals' Sex Talk Has Hidden Agenda

      (Newser) - Sex is no longer taboo for the religious right—but the evangelical sexual revolution is no liberation movement, historian Dagmar Herzog argues in her new book, Sex in Crisis . Instead, Herzog asserts that “evangelicals, over the last couple of decades, have beaten liberals at their own game by adapting liberal rhetoric for conservative ends," writes Louis Bayard in Salon . He thinks, however, that Herzog has overstated the case a bit. More »

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      homosexuality  • evangelicals  • religious right  • book reviews  • sex education

    • Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion

      Science Blogs  |  Jul 5, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion

      (Newser) - Thomas Jefferson may be a founding father, but that doesn’t stop President Bush’s speechwriters from editing his words as they see fit, Ed Brayton writes on his blog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars. In a July 4 speech, Bush recited a famous Jefferson quote on “the blessings and security of self-government,” but took a crucial “anti-religious statement” out of the sentence. More »

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      George W. Bush  • religious right  • speech  • Fourth of July  • Thomas Jefferson

  • May 2008

    • Huffington Unmasks 'Pandering' McCain

      Huffington Post  |  May 6, 08 6:37 PM CDT

      Huffington Unmasks 'Pandering' McCain

      (Newser) - John McCain said after the 2000 election he hadn’t voted for George Bush, Arianna Huffington wrote yesterday, and the bombshell has provoked angry denials from the camp of the future GOP nominee, whom she once "admired and even loved." Firing back, the Huffington Post founder further details McCain’s “Shakespearean” fall from maverick status. More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • torture  • religious right  • Arianna Huffington

  • February 2008
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