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The Religious Right

Christian conservatives lead the charge rightward on hot-button political and social issues ranging from abortion and gay marriage to faith-based education

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June 2007
- Mormon Faith Bedevils Romney Bid
  
  ABC News | Jun 20, 07 9:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mitt Romney is still having to explain and defend his religion on the campaign trail. In recent weeks, staffers for two GOP rivals sent out e-mails questioning Mormon beliefs (the candidates later apologized), notes ABC News. And Romney himself has had to battle misconceptions about his faith, especially with regard to polygamy, which the church banned in 1890. More »
- Race Cases Don't Have a Prayer With Feds
  
  New York Times | Jun 14, 07 7:13 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Justice Department has set race discrimination cases on the back burner to pursue claims by religious groups that their rights have been violated, the Times reports. Bush administration attorneys have intervened spiritedly in protecting churches and synagogues from zoning committees, for instance, but slashed lawsuits on behalf of minority voters. More »
- Face It: Court Approves Full Veil at Cairo U
  
  BBC | Jun 12, 07 12:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Women at the American University in Cairo cannot be barred from wearing the traditional Islamic veil covering the entire face, or niqab, a court has ruled after a lengthy battle, reports the BBC. While some hailed the ruling as a blow for religious freedom, others blasted it as a dangerous drift toward Islamic extremism. More »
May 2007
- Conservatives Wield FDA Data on HPV Vaccine
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 24, 07 3:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A group of religious conservatives has marshalled unreleased FDA data as a weapon in the battle against Gardasil, the new cervical cancer vaccine. The data indicates health problems in women taking the vaccine, but drugmaker Merck and the FDA both insist that the negative effects are probably unrelated to the vaccine. Critics oppose legislation to require administering the vaccine in schools. More »
- Some Young American Muslims Take Extreme View
  
  NPR | May 23, 07 10:12 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Young American Muslims are more religious and more willing to defend Islamic extremists than are their elders, a new study concludes. One in four US Muslims under 30 say they believe that suicide attacks may be justified, compared to just 6% of those over 30. Overall, American Muslims are more satisfied with their lives than their European counterparts. More »
- Evangelicals Sway Toward the Center
  
  New York Times | May 21, 07 5:34 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The once hard-right Evangelical Christian movement is waxing centrist, the New York Times reports, as a new breed of religious leaders breaks from an abortion-and-sexuality-obsessed old guard to tackle broader nonpartisan issues like AIDS, and even liberal-leaning ones like Darfur and global warming. More »
- Evangelicals Split on Climate Change
  
  BBC | May 15, 07 10:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - American evangelical Christians diverge on the issue of climate change, with one side calling it a hoax and the other exhorting believers—in the Lord as well as the scientific evidence—to work against global warming. The BBC reports on two Christian universities in Virginia that come down on opposite sides of the divide. More »
- Rudy Tries Candor On Tough Issues
  
  New York Times | May 11, 07 4:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rudy Giuliani chose Houston Baptist College to debut his new, more candid campaign today, telling a conservative crowd that he supports abortion rights, some restrictions on gun ownership, and gay civil unions, though not same-sex marraige. Giuliani appealed to the audience to be open to a GOP candidate who may differ with them on some issues. More »
April 2007
- How Barack Found Jesus
  
  New York Times | Apr 30, 07 1:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Times retraces Barack Obama's peripatetic path to the Christianity he embraced 20 years ago and now invokes as he presents his presidential campaign in nothing short of biblical terms. Obama's mother was an anthropologist who schooled her son in the variety of religious experiences; his father's family in Kenya is Muslim. More »
- Bible Belt Brings Fight to Europe
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Apr 17, 07 11:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - American evangelicals have opened a new front in the culture wars—across the Atlantic. Christian groups, including Pat Robertson's legal organization, the American Center for Law and Justice, are actively challenging German laws against home schooling, defending Britons who refuse to work on Sunday, and combating same-sex marriage and stem cell research across the continent. More »
- Obama as Jesus Stirs Some Ire
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 3, 07 9:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Another sculpture of Jesus is stirring protest this Holy Week—this time a work portraying Barack Obama as the savior. The Art Institute of Chicago has gotten a flood of angry calls over the piece in an exhibition of student work, close on the heels of the chocolate Christ brouhaha in Manhattan. More »

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The Rev. Jerry Falwell prays during his visit to the Canton Baptist Temple, in a photo from Jan. 20, 1990, in Canton, Ohio. Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform...

The Rev. Jerry Falwell prays during his visit to the Canton Baptist Temple, in a photo from Jan. 20, 1990, in Canton, Ohio. Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, after... (Associated Press)

The Rev. Jerry Falwell prays during his visit to the Canton Baptist Temple, in a photo from Jan. 20, 1990, in Canton, Ohio. Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform...

The Rev. Jerry Falwell prays during his visit to the Canton Baptist Temple, in a photo from Jan. 20, 1990, in Canton, Ohio. Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, after... (Associated Press)

Mourners write notes to the Falwell family after a memorial service at the Thomas Roads Baptist Church, in remembrance of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Lynchburg, Va. Fallwell, seen in the portrait, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force,...

Mourners write notes to the Falwell family after a memorial service at the Thomas Roads Baptist Church, in remembrance of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Lynchburg, Va. Fallwell, seen... (Associated Press)

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