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July 2, 2008

Burress, Schlafly, Barton Dispense with McCain Foreplay

After a private meeting with John McCain, Ohio Religious Right icon Phil Burress remained a little ho-hum about the candidate he felt obligated to support, but soon enough—after McCain announced his support for California’s anti-gay marriage amendment, anyway—Burress was bubbling over with excitement:

He says McCain was courteous and took detailed notes on what the six had to say about issues such as the sanctity of life, marriage, and judges. "It was so refreshing to me because he was so different than any other politician that I have ever met," describes Burress. He says McCain is not swayed like other politicians. …

"...[I] left there a changed man," he admits.

Burress wrote to his supporters that after the meeting, “40 Ohio Pro-Family Forum leaders … have decided to move forward and start working to educate Ohio Values Voters about the vast differences between McCain and Obama.”

I was once one of those people who said "no way" to Senator John McCain as President. No longer. The stakes are too high. And if Obama wins I need to able to get up on November 5th, look at myself in the mirror, and when I pray, say, "Lord, I did all that I could."

And today, Burress joined a hundred other activists—including far-right heavyweights Phyllis Schlafly and David Barton—in Denver to commit to campaign for McCain:

"Collectively we feel that he will support and advance those moral values that we hold much greater than Obama, who in our view will decimate moral values," said Mat Staver, the chairman of Liberty Counsel, a legal advocacy group, who previously supported Mike Huckabee's candidacy. …

The group included leaders like Phyllis Schlafly, the long-time leader of Eagle Forum; Steve Strang, the publisher of Charisma magazine; Phil Burress, a prominent Ohio marriage and anti-pornography activist; David Barton, the founder of WallBuilders and Donald Hodel, a former secretary of the Interior, who previously served on the board of Focus on the Family. Jim Dobson, the head of Focus and an outspoken critic of McCain, did not attend. The McCain campaign was also not directly represented at the meeting.

A second person who attended the event, but asked not to be named, said that the group was motivated principally by a desire to defeat Barack Obama. "None of these people want to meet their maker knowing that they didn't do everything they could to keep Barack Obama from being president," the participant said. "You've got these two people running for president. One of them is going to become president. That's the perspective. That that's the whole discussion." …

On a recent swing through Ohio, McCain met with a group of religious leaders and activists, including Burress, who has previously been critical of McCain's lack of outreach to Christian conservatives. According to two participants at the Tuesday meeting in Denver, Burress spoke out strongly in favor of uniting behind McCain's candidacy.

Staver said the McCain campaign was making progress but still had more work to do. "I think that the outreach to the community has to increase significantly," he said. "There is a clear enthusiasm."

Posted by Ezra at 5:18 PM | Permalink

Subject: Religious Right, Groups: Citizens for Community Values, Liberty Counsel, Eagle Forum, Wallbuilders, People: Phil Burress, Phyllis Schlafly, Mat Staver, David Barton, James Dobson, John McCain, States: Ohio, Colorado

July 1, 2008

Dobson’s Attack Opens the Floodgates

The Right is always saying that candidates can and should bring their faith to the public square, but it seems like the more Barack Obama does it, the more he gets criticized.

As we’ve noted several times in the past, for months right-wing activists like Rob Schenck have been declaring “Obama's Christianity woefully deficient” and demanding that Obama explain, in detail, the basic tenets of his faith so that the Right can judge just “how profound is the religious commitment that Barack Obama has made.” Others have echoed that point, saying that Obama is not a “true Christian,” that “there is a clear requirement for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn’t meet that requirement,” and that Obama’s faith “tramples on the historic teachings of Christianity and the Bible.”

These attacks culminated in a nearly unprecedented episode last week when James Dobson dedicated his radio program to disparaging Obama’s understanding of his Christian faith, which was followed up by a three-part video series in which Focus on the Family Vice President Tom Minnery accusing Obama of having everything from a “completely and utterly ridiculous understanding” of the role of religion in public life to holding sacrilegious views.

And now that attacks on Obama’s faith have been given Dobson’s blessing, it seems as if every right-wing commentator cannot wait to pile on, with Pat Buchanan weighing in with his typically well-reasoned and insightful views:

Obama, however, is now preaching a kumbaya Christianity where leaders who believe abortion is the killing of the innocent unborn are to set their convictions and cause aside in the name of ecumenical amity.

It is Dobson who, in his intolerance of perceived evil, seems in the tradition of the abolitionists, and Barack who appears more like the milquetoast believers of whom Christ said he would spit them out of his mouth because they were neither hot nor cold and whom Dante consigned to the deepest reaches of hell.

For his part, George Neumayr was no less splenetic:

The willfulness he casually assumes in the traditionally religious defines his own stance, as he cobbles together a sham Christianity from scratch that conveniently dovetails with the platform of the Democratic Party, then calls his vote-searching the reconciliation of "religion and politics."

And, of course, the folks at the Christian Defense Coalition could not let any opportunity pass to weigh in as well:

Senator Obama does not have the moral authority to address these issues while supporting the tragic killing of innocent children and diminishing of women through abortion.

"The question must be asked, how can one support faith and values while embracing policies that brutalize children and wound women? Senator Obama cannot talk with integrity about his faith and social justice anymore than a segregationist or racist can talk about their faith, justice or equality with integrity.

And then there is Rick Scarborough of Vision America :

"Like my friend Jim Dobson, I was appalled by the Senator's remarks," Scarborough disclosed. "This speech showed Obama's real views on politics and religion. And, I can tell you, the presumptive Democratic nominee is no friend of Bible-believing Christians," Scarborough added.

Of course, Scarborough has spent the last week loudly complaining that a variety of evangelical leaders even agreed to meet with Obama earlier this month (probably because he wasn’t invited, though he has been trying to make it seem like he was) saying that doing so only confuses right-wing voters:

Senator Obama (D-Illinois), the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, recently held meetings with prominent Christians, including Franklin Graham and Bishop T.D. Jakes. But Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America Action, says evangelical leaders send a confusing message when they meet with Obama.

"This is a man that has never seen an unborn fetus that he wouldn't abort," chides Scarborough. "While serving in the state legislature in the state of Illinois, [he] served on a committee that literally prevented a bipartisan piece of legislation which would have offered medical services to botched abortions," he points out.

Scarborough goes on to criticize Obama's stance on homosexuality. "He's radically pro-gay...even to legislating against sections of the Bible and preventing those of us who embrace those sections of the Bible from preaching biblical truth," he argues. "So I'm troubled by it."

Posted by Kyle at 4:29 PM | Permalink

Subjects: Religion, Religious Right, Groups: Christian Defense Coalition, Vision America, People: Barack Obama, Pat Buchanan, George Neumayr, Rick Scarborough, Patrick Mahoney

Dobson Attacks Lack “Intellectual Integrity”

Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center criticizes James Dobson’s attacks on Barack Obama: “There are certainly reasons for evangelicals to have concerns about Obama…But critics of Obama have an obligation to provide a fair and honest critique, and the attacks leveled by Dobson fall terribly short of that standard. If Christian conservatives want to be taken seriously, they need to make serious arguments and speak with intellectual integrity. In this instance, Dobson didn't. He has set back his cause and made some of us who are evangelicals and conservatives wince.”

Posted by Chris at 10:20 AM | Permalink

Subjects: Sideblog, Politics, Religious Right, People: Peter Wehner, James Dobson, Barack Obama

Huckabee Hits Right Wing Conference Circuit

Mike Huckabee, set to headline the Christian Family Alliance of Colorado pastors’ conference, sends this promotional message: “America and our Judeo Christian heritage is under attack by a force that is more destructive than any threat America has faced since Adolph Hitler in 1934. Defeating the radical jihadists will require renewed resolve and spiritual rearmament by the evangelical pastors in America…Rediscovering God in America-Denver, CO is to remind and encourage us that the proper position for America when facing evil and confronting enemies is not to find excuses for defeat but to find the resources, the courage, and the strength from God necessary to win.” Joining Huckabee will be Gov. Rick Perry, David Barton, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, Mat Staver, and Don Wildmon, among others.

Posted by Chris at 10:14 AM | Permalink

Subjects: Sideblog, Religious Right, People: Mike Huckabee, David Barton, Rick Perry, Mat Staver, Donald Wildmon, Tim LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye

Gilmore Visits Liberty U

VA Senate candidate Jim Gilmore “campaigned at a celebration hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church” and promised to “fight to reduce energy costs and rising gas prices.” Although Jonathan Falwell “stopped shy of publicly endorsing Gilmore,” he did urge listeners “to go find out what this man stands for and find out what his opponent stands for and then you vote for the person whom most closely resembles what you believe.”

Posted by Chris at 10:12 AM | Permalink

Subjects: Sideblog, Politics, Religious Right, People: Jim Gilmore, Jonathan Falwell

June 30, 2008

Suddenly The Right Says The White House Doesn’t Matter

With the GOP’s Congressional electoral prospects looking increasingly dim and John McCain trailing by double-digits in current polls, it looks like right-wing activists see the writing on the wall and have started to deemphasize the importance of having ideological allies control the levers of political power:

Jim Daly, Focus on the Family's president and chief executive officer, downplays the Bush administration's significance to the Christian right.

"Our advocacy for pro-family policies, at the federal and state level, has never been dependent upon who holds what office," Daly said. "We advocated for the sanctity of human life, the value of traditional marriage and other issues that affect the family before President Bush was in the White House, and we'll continue to do so after he leaves it."

Of course, this line of argument might be more convincing if Focus on the Family and its head, James Dobson, hadn’t played a key role in getting President Bush elected in 2000 and 2004 and gone all out to help the GOP retain control of Congress in 2006. It would be even more convincing if Daly had not said this just days after Dobson and FOF spent an entire week attacking Barack Obama and John McCain was not currently clamoring for a chance to meet with Dobson and try to win his support.

Posted by Kyle at 4:44 PM | Permalink

Subjects: Politics, Religious Right, Group: Focus on the Family

The Dangers of Auto-Replace

In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:

Though AFA has since corrected its article, it looks like this auto-replace feature has been embarrassing them for quite some time now:

And while they may have fixed this particular instance, it looks like they haven't gone back through their archives and corrected other articles where this happened, such as this article where professional basketball player Rudy Gay is referred to as "Rudy Homosexual."

Posted by Kyle at 9:33 AM | Permalink

Subjects: Anti-Gay, Religious Right, Group: American Family Association

June 27, 2008

McCain Endorses CA Marriage Amendment After Meeting OH Right-Wing Activists

As we noted yesterday, John McCain was scheduled to meet with a handful of right-wing activists in Ohio who were not particularly excited about the prospect of supporting his campaign. At the meeting, McCain reportedly “took detailed notes and listened intently” but apparently didn’t quite win them over:

He spoke for more than an hour but never mentioned issues that social conservatives skeptical of McCain want to hear about: his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, or appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court.

Conservative activists say that's a big problem.

"John McCain needs to talk about life more often, he needs to talk about marriage," activist Phil Burress said. "If the senator thinks he is going to run the campaign appealing to the middle by avoiding to talk about the social issues, he is going to lose Ohio."

But what do you know? One day later, it looks like the message these activists delivered has sunk in, leading McCain to suddenly come out in support of the California Marriage Amendment:

United States Senator John McCain today announced his support for the California Protection of Marriage initiative on the state's November ballot, leaders of the ProtectMarriage.com campaign announced. In an email received by the ProtectMarriage.com campaign, Senator McCain issued the following statement:

"I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we did in my home state of Arizona. I do not believe judges should be making these decisions."

Posted by Kyle at 4:31 PM | Permalink

Subjects: Anti-Gay, Politics, Religious Right, People: John McCain, Phil Burress, States: California, Ohio

McCain Still Hopes to Meet With Dobson

Despite the fact that James Dobson has repeatedly attacked John McCain and made it abundantly clear that he will not, under any circumstances, vote for him, it looks like McCain is still grovelling for a meeting.

According to the Los Angeles Times, at the recent meeting with right-wing activists in Ohio that we wrote about yesterday, McCain told participants that he's still trying to win Dobson over:

McCain told the activists Thursday that he also hoped to meet with James C. Dobson, founder of the influential group Focus on the Family, who has said he would not vote for McCain. "The senator spoke fondly of him, but believes there's probably room for some bridge-building," said Mike Gonidakis, head of Ohio Right to Life.

Participants said McCain took detailed notes and listened intently. McCain's aides said they were satisfied with the meeting, and one called it "successful."

Posted by Kyle at 12:01 PM | Permalink

Subjects: Politics, Religious Right, People: James Dobson, John McCain

Keeping the Focus on Obama’s Faith – Part III

Focus on the Family has wrapped up its three-part series attacking Barack Obama’s faith and understanding of Christianity. In part one, FOF Vice President Tom Minnery accused Obama of having “a fierce misunderstanding of Christianity,” while in part two he called Obama’s interpretation of the Bible sacrilegious. In the final installment, Minnery said Obama has a “complete and utterly ridiculous understanding” of the role of religion in public life.

Trobee: Tom, in the next segment of the address, I think it really represents the crux of the issue. What he says, basically, is that Christians are being asked to set aside their values and basically to keep their noses out of politics.

Obama: Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do.

Minnery: Oh oh

Obama: But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice. Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what's possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise.

Minnery: In a way, he’s right. What we believe, we believe absolutely. But no one who understands the proper place of religion in a free society believes that God’s edicts ought to be imposed on everyone. Nobody can impose anything on anyone. We understand compromise. We believe that it is unrighteous, wrong, to take the lives of innocent unborn children but we want to fight for those beliefs in the Democratic halls of the legislatures of the Congress. We are able to work back to our principle piece by piece, increment by increment, compromise by compromise, if you will. We are quite willing to be involved, as citizens, in the legislature that our civil government provides for us. We don’t want to impose any edict, any religious principle of God.

Obama: If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

Minnery: What he is suggesting here is that somehow conservative Christian people, presumably Dr. Dobson, whom he mentioned by name, wants to impose a theocracy. There has never been a suggestion from here or in any orthodox, evangelical source that a theocracy is appropriate for the United States of America. A theocracy, God’s edicts, were what the Israelites had to contend with. That’s called the Old Testament. This is called the New Testament. Salvation is open to everyone. Our Christianity is based on love. Nobody can force anyone to love anyone else. So this is a complete and utterly ridiculous understanding of how we bring faith into the public square.

Posted by Kyle at 10:18 AM | Permalink

Subjects: Religion, Politics, Religious Right, Group: Focus on the Family, People: Barack Obama, James Dobson, Tom Minnery

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06/26/08	Nose Holding in Ohio
06/26/08	Keeping the Focus on Obama’s Faith – Part II
06/25/08	Keeping the Focus on Obama’s Faith
06/24/08	The Right’s New Religious Test
06/23/08	The Musclehead Revolution Takes Over FRC
06/19/08	The Right Goes All In to Stop Marriage Equality in California
06/18/08	The Return of the 'One-Day Crusade'
06/18/08	FRC Demands That McCain Talk Religion Like They Want
06/18/08	Christian Coalition of Alabama "Expands Focus"
06/17/08	How Gay Marriage “Sodomized The Entire Culture” and Destroyed Father’s Day
06/17/08	Hagee "Clarifies" Holocaust Remarks
06/17/08	Barber, Onward and Upward
06/13/08	Donohue: Candidates Should "Respect Churches"
06/ 9/08	Famous Novelist Ralph Reed Predicts Divisive Wedge Issues Will Persist
06/ 6/08	Rod Parsley Plays The Victim
06/ 6/08	Ritter Responds to Restroom Hullabaloo
06/ 5/08	LaBarbera Plans Hotel Boycott
06/ 5/08	Christian Right Claims Bill "Criminalizes Thoughts"
06/ 4/08	The Never-Ending Victimization of US Christians
06/ 4/08	String of Losses Causes Right to Lose It
06/ 3/08	Hagee Had Line to the White House
06/ 3/08	Feels Like Heaven for Conservatives in Louisiana
06/ 2/08	Religious Right: 'True Christians' Only Those with 'Right' Politics
06/ 2/08	The “Most Honest Book” Ralph Reed Has Ever Written
05/30/08	Weyrich Duped Again?
05/30/08	Pat Robertson's 'New Order' Makes Comeback
05/29/08	AFA Wants Us To Know We Are Going To Hell
05/28/08	Conservatives Hot for Jindal, Cold to Crist
05/28/08	McCain’s Surrogates Still Love Hagee
05/27/08	McCain's Pastor Problem Foreshadows Conflict
05/23/08	Prophetic Words from Pastor Hagee
05/22/08	McCain Throws Hagee Under the Bus
05/22/08	Focus On The Family Seeks to Protect Colorado From Dangerous "Men in Dresses"
05/22/08	Obama Will Force "Catholics and Evangelicals to Pay for Abortions"
05/21/08	Schenck Seeks Any Hook
05/20/08	Will McCain Pick Up Huckabee’s Baggage?
05/19/08	Bishop Harry Jackson: “Registered Democrat”
05/19/08	McCain Rebuffing Dobson?
05/19/08	FRC and the Father-Daughter Purity Ball
05/16/08	Hagee and Donohue Now BFFs
05/16/08	They Are Just Not That Into You
05/16/08	Hagee: Economic Woes God's Punishment for Abortion
05/15/08	More Phony Right-Wing Environmentalism
05/14/08	The Magnanimous Bill Donohue
05/13/08	Hagee Apologizes … to Donohue
05/ 9/08	The Right Prepares to Challenge the IRS
05/ 7/08	Dobson Nominated for Radio Hall of Fame
05/ 7/08	Because the National Day of Prayer is not Enough
04/29/08	The Triumphant Return of the Christian Coalition
04/28/08	Alan Keyes In a Nutshell
04/24/08	McCain Wins By Losing
04/23/08	Perfect Timing
04/18/08	Huckabee: No Hard Feelings
04/16/08	Keyes Makes It Official
04/16/08	Perkins' Invitation Lost in the Mail?
04/15/08	Keyes Puts Mouth Where Money Isn’t
04/14/08	An Armey of One
04/14/08	Bauer Still Ga-Ga Over Thompson
04/14/08	Patriotic Pastors to the Rescue
04/10/08	McCain Brags of “Close Relations” With Evangelicals, Hagee
04/10/08	More On Keyes' Major Announcement
04/10/08	Schaffer, Abramoff, and TVC
04/10/08	Nobody Asked Him
04/ 9/08	Eagerly Awaiting April 15th
04/ 9/08	Weyrich Repents, Again
04/ 8/08	McCain’s “Committee of 50”
04/ 8/08	The Dangers of "Wacky Week"
04/ 8/08	Perkins for Senate in 2010?
04/ 8/08	Perkins Pal Runs for Congress
04/ 7/08	Hagee Donates $6 Million to Israel
04/ 4/08	Paul Weyrich’s Penance
04/ 3/08	The Revelation Will Not Be Televised
04/ 3/08	Dobson’s Dilemma
04/ 2/08	God Opens a Window for Vision America
03/26/08	Huckabee Gets No Love From the Right
03/24/08	Falwell Never Apologized
03/21/08	FRC’s Sprigg Wants to Export Gays
03/20/08	Gays Want to Poison Our Blood Supply!
03/19/08	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Pretend to Join 'Em
03/19/08	Eagleburger Says McCain Won't Pander to Right
03/18/08	Fighting It Out on the Pages of WND
03/18/08	Alan Keyes Leaving Republican Party?
03/17/08	Global Warming = The Second Coming?
03/17/08	The Next Values Voter Summit
03/17/08	What’s Obama To Do?
03/14/08	The Confusing Rick Scarborough
03/13/08	Slow and Steady
03/12/08	Dobson's Worries About the Right's Future
03/11/08	Bush Gives Shout Out to Dobson, Limbaugh
03/11/08	Janet Folger: Sheep
03/10/08	Do The Dobsons Agree?
03/10/08	Hutcherson and the Legacy of MLK
03/10/08	Dobson Gives Thumbs Up to "Expelled"
03/ 7/08	McCain Hopes to Meet With Dobson
03/ 7/08	McCain Courts the Council for National Policy
03/ 6/08	Obama Must Explain His Faith
03/ 6/08	Rod Parsley, John McCain's 'Spiritual Guide'
03/ 4/08	Religious Right's Ever-Expanding Platform
02/28/08	McCain Be Not Proud
02/28/08	Huckabee Hopes To Lure McCain With Debate
02/28/08	Catholic League Blasts McCain Over Hagee
02/28/08	More Than Personal
02/27/08	The Maverick and the Armageddon Advocate
02/27/08	McCain Brings Parsley on Stage—Get Ready for 'Patriot Pastors' Campaign
02/26/08	Why Can't Janet Spell?
02/22/08	The Right Targets Barack and Michelle Obama – Hitlers in Waiting?
02/22/08	Huckabee’s Two-Fer
02/20/08	Roy Moore Weighs In
02/20/08	The Return of Jim Bakker
02/19/08	Huckabee’s Future
02/19/08	The Jerry Falwell Parkway
02/15/08	Will They or Won’t They?
02/15/08	Brody File Readers Weigh In on McCain
02/14/08	Back to Square One
02/14/08	Obama, Castro, and Marx
02/13/08	What a Difference One Month Makes
02/12/08	Another Verse, Just Like the First
02/11/08	CDC Still Won't Let Go
02/11/08	Jerry Falwell Honored By VA Legislature
02/ 8/08	Dobson’s Craven Calculation
02/ 7/08	The Straight Talk Express Veers Right
02/ 6/08	Dobson Seeks a Million Pledges Not to Vote for McCain?
02/ 6/08	"Is Anyone Going to Care What Grade They Get From the Christian Coalition?"
02/ 5/08	Dobson Re-Unendorses McCain
02/ 4/08	McCain’s Delicate Dance
02/ 4/08	RoeGone Returns
02/ 4/08	Does Vision America Dwarf MoveOn?
02/ 4/08	Don't Vote for Satan!
02/ 1/08	Who Will Console Rick Scarborough?
01/31/08	FOF Says Dobson Was Right
01/31/08	Does Mitt Romney Know About This?
01/30/08	Romney’s Fading Hope?
01/30/08	CAR's Mission Accomplished
01/29/08	Romney Winning Over Christian Coalition Figures
01/29/08	Janet Folger's Anti-Romney Front Group
01/28/08	Alan Keyes Just Like Jesus
01/28/08	McCain Urging People to Skip Church?
01/28/08	Is the Right Secretly Endorsing Romney?
01/25/08	Keyes In It to Win It
01/25/08	David Barton at Work
01/24/08	Romney Picks Up Where He Left Off
01/23/08	If a Keyes Falls in the Woods …
01/23/08	God Wants You To Vote … Republican
01/22/08	Huckabee Picks Up a Baldwin
01/17/08	Gay Marriage Leads to Bestiality
01/17/08	The Huckabee Conspiracy
01/16/08	Huckabee: A New Kind of Evangelical?
01/15/08	Confusing Seniors For Profit
01/15/08	Pastor in Chief
01/11/08	Huckabee's Non-Expanding Base
01/11/08	Robertson Seeks to Buy Critical Paper
01/10/08	Alabama County Gives Money to Far-Right Group
01/10/08	Monaghan Endorses Romney
01/ 9/08	Reports of Huckabee’s Moderation Are Greatly Exaggerated
01/ 9/08	An Unwelcome Invitation
01/ 9/08	AL County Gives Eagle Forum $15,000
01/ 9/08	Hijacking the Language of Faith
01/ 9/08	Huckabee A Victim of “Anti-Evangelical Bias”?
01/ 8/08	Religious Right Rejects Outreach to Muslims
01/ 7/08	Perkins Slams Efforts at ‘Unity’
01/ 3/08	Romney Supporters Resent Huckabee's Focus on Faith
01/ 3/08	Will David Barton Be Huck’s Secretary of Education?
12/26/07	Huckabee’s Many Helpers
12/19/07	When Right-Wing Christians Come Home to Roost
12/18/07	Courting the Right, Deep In The Heart of Texas
12/13/07	A Reverse Religious Test?
12/12/07	No "Buyers' Remorse" for Huck Backers
12/12/07	Romney Hit On Stem Cells
12/12/07	"Non-Partisan" Huckabee Rallies Delayed
12/12/07	The New Christmas Tradition
12/10/07	Terri Schiavo Day
12/10/07	Praise Be to Huckabee
12/10/07	TVC Commends Condi
12/10/07	Playing the Victim
12/ 6/07	The Huckabee of Old
12/ 6/07	The Speech: Romney still no JFK
12/ 6/07	Romney Pulling a Reverse JFK?
12/ 5/07	Huckabee: The Squeaky Wheel
12/ 4/07	"A Gathering of Eagles"
12/ 4/07	Scarborough Blasts ENDA
12/ 4/07	Folger Takes Credit for Scuttling YouTube Debate
12/ 3/07	Gordon Robertson Takes Over CBN
12/ 3/07	Huckabee Rallies the Right in Iowa
11/30/07	Vision America Barnstorming Iowa
11/30/07	FRC Blasts GOP Loyalty Pledge
11/30/07	Pat Robertson to the Rescue?
11/28/07	The Right Rallies 'Round Huckabee
11/28/07	Romney Meets With Schiavo's Brother
11/28/07	Folger’s Fantasy World
11/27/07	Dobson Won’t Support a Mormon or Launch His Own Campaign
11/27/07	Huckabee Wins Over More "Christian Leaders"
11/26/07	Battle of the Boycotts
11/20/07	"A Year of Demonstrations and Civil Disobedience"
11/20/07	Hillary Will Put the Right in Prison!
11/19/07	"Pat Robertson Should Sit Down and Shut Up"
11/19/07	Is The Right Driving Moderate Republicans Away?
11/16/07	Clinton Will Unify The Right
11/16/07	Beware "The Golden Compass"
11/16/07	No Christmas for Fido
11/16/07	An Evening With Fred Thompson
11/15/07	The Future Home of Right-Wing Intellectuals?
11/15/07	Former FRC Head Blasts Current Right-Wing Leaders
11/15/07	Enemy of Your Enemy?
11/10/07	Randall Terry’s Operation Robertson
11/ 9/07	Right Wing Showdown on M Street
11/ 9/07	Does Dobson Heart Huckabee?
11/ 8/07	Who Speaks for the Right?
11/ 8/07	Wildmon Throws In With Huckabee
11/ 8/07	God Opens a Window
11/ 7/07	The Perils of Wooing Pat Robertson
11/ 7/07	America More Dangerous Than Iraq
11/ 7/07	GOP Only Party With a "Truly Biblical Worldview"
11/ 7/07	Land Blasts Phelps
11/ 7/07	Robertson to Endorse Giuliani?
11/ 7/07	Romney Pandering Himself Right Into a Corner
11/ 6/07	Who Is Mike McKee?
11/ 6/07	Armey Attacks Dobson Again
11/ 5/07	The Right Demands Post Flip-Flop Consistency
11/ 5/07	Creation Museum Exceeds Expectations
11/ 1/07	Raising Money Off a 20 Year Old Study
11/ 1/07	Scarborough Hearts Huckabee
11/ 1/07	Christians Cannot Vote for Non-Christians
10/31/07	The War on Christmas Returns
10/31/07	Huckabee and Giuliani: BFF?
10/31/07	It’s 1996 All Over Again
10/30/07	The War on “The Golden Compass”
10/26/07	The Long Knives Come Out For Huckabee
10/25/07	The Post-Dobson Era
10/25/07	Making a Bad Book Worse
10/24/07	Land: Voting for Giuliani Like Voting for a Klansman
10/23/07	Huckabee Supporters Demand a Recount
10/23/07	Perkins’ Prediction Comes True and Creates a New Dilemma
10/23/07	Huckabee’s Tough Talk
10/22/07	He Ain't Fringy, He's My Brother
10/22/07	Perkins Backing Thompson?
10/22/07	Land Falling Out of Love With Thompson?
10/22/07	Hillary The Dictator
10/21/07	Dobson Drama and Prayers for a Political Miracle in 08
10/21/07	Contested Vote Count: Romney v Huckabee
10/20/07	Huckabee to Right: Don't Sell Out
10/20/07	Giuliani to Right: 'You Have Absolutely Nothing to Fear from Me'
10/20/07	Bauer's Bombast
10/20/07	Schlafly: Still Candidate Shopping, but a Tough Customer
10/20/07	Romney: Still no JFK
10/19/07	Perkins Lays Down the Line(s)
10/19/07	Candidates Curry Right's Favor, While Proving its Influence
10/19/07	Thompson Tees it Up
10/19/07	Breakfast with Bishop Jackson
10/18/07	Just How Fractured Is the Right?
10/18/07	Randall Terry on Rampage Against Giuliani
10/18/07	Memo to Time: The Far Right Knows the Supreme Court Matters
10/18/07	Pastor: Vote for a Christian, Not Romney
10/18/07	Right Wing Leaders to Meet Again
10/16/07	Look Who’s Coming to Dobson’s Dinner
10/16/07	Romney Picks Up Endorsement From Bob Jones University
10/16/07	Robertson Issues Another Dire Warning
10/16/07	Schlafly Appearance Prompts Walkout
10/16/07	If You Don’t Like Pat Robertson, You Must Be Crazy
10/15/07	Regent Student Barred From Campus Over Robertson Photo
10/15/07	God Warns San Francisco
10/11/07	Regent Student Under Fire Over Robertson Photo
10/11/07	Backing Romney By Default
10/11/07	New President at Coral Ridge
10/ 9/07	"Justice Sunday" Preacher Survives Vote of No Confidence
10/ 9/07	Scarborough Can’t Make Up His Mind
10/ 9/07	Dobson Says Jump, GOP Says How High
10/ 5/07	Citizens For The Republic Reborn
10/ 5/07	Another Day ...
10/ 4/07	Tony Beam Making Our Jobs Easier
10/ 4/07	Decoding Land’s Not-So-Hypothetical Dilemma
10/ 4/07	Dobson Claims Unity
10/ 4/07	Thompson Won't Dance With Dobson
10/ 4/07	Religious Right Loves McCain’s ‘Christian Nation’ Rhetoric
10/ 3/07	Giuliani Strikes Back
10/ 3/07	The Right Can’t Even Agree on How to Abandon the GOP
10/ 2/07	“The Court is No Longer the Trump Card”
10/ 2/07	We Couldn't Have Said It Better Ourselves
10/ 1/07	Praying Beside the Courthouse
10/ 1/07	Thompson Seeks Right-Wing Support in Iowa
09/26/07	Anatomy of a Right Wing Outrage
09/25/07	Thompson Sets Off a Dobson-Land War
09/25/07	Alan Keyes Needs a Miracle
09/24/07	Howard Dean Courting Richard Land?
09/24/07	Low Turnout at Family Impact Summit
09/24/07	Family Impact Summit: Homosexuality and Youth
09/24/07	Family Impact Summit: Bauer Sees End of Roe, Victory in War Against Feminism
09/21/07	Paper Profiles Values Voter Choir
09/20/07	"Death Cults" Taking Over America
09/20/07	Catch a Falling Star
09/20/07	FRC Succeeds Where Values Voter Debate Failed
09/19/07	Surprise! Gays Not Popular at Religious Right’s GOP Debate
09/19/07	A Right-Wing Three-Fer
09/19/07	No Shows Found Guilty in Absentia
09/18/07	Litmus Tests, Executive Orders, and Wombs
09/18/07	Religious Right Debate Organizer Declares Huckabee The Anointed One
09/18/07	Why Should God Bless America?
09/18/07	Giuliani’s Pathetic Excuse
09/17/07	The People Have Spoken
09/17/07	What Is Rudy Up To?
09/17/07	Dobson Worried About the Future of the Right
09/17/07	Protesting the Democratic National Convention
09/17/07	Who's Who At the Values Voter Debate
09/14/07	The Rise and Fall of the Great Right Hope?
09/14/07	Surprise Questions at Values Voter Debate?
09/14/07	The Next Klingenschmitt?
09/12/07	"Their Blood Will Be on Our Hands"
09/12/07	"Expect Action and Suspense" At GOP Debate
09/11/07	FOF Lays Off Thirty
09/11/07	Bill Donohue Targets Kathy Griffin
09/10/07	The Right Weighs In On Iraq
09/10/07	Land Tries to Ease Right’s Qualms About Thompson
09/10/07	IRS Says Dobson's 2004 Endorsements Not Illegal
09/ 6/07	We Want Your Votes, But Not Your Questions
09/ 6/07	A Costly Near-Miss for Thompson
09/ 6/07	Crusade Still Struggling Financially
09/ 6/07	"God's Harvard"
09/ 6/07	Alan Keyes Readying Run for President?
09/ 5/07	The ACLJ's Influence Growing
09/ 5/07	The Passing of D. James Kennedy
08/30/07	Top GOP Candidates Snubbing Values Voter Debate?
08/30/07	Is God Killing Off Evangelists?
08/30/07	Scarborough Tickled Pink By "God's Warriors"
08/29/07	Hobnobbing with the Right in Florida
08/29/07	"Fess Up to God and Man, Step Aside and Seek Help"
08/29/07	News Flash from Conservative Evangelicals: We’re Out of Mainstream
08/29/07	AFA Still Targeting Zed
08/29/07	Ailing Televangelist and Religious-Right Pioneer Retires
08/28/07	Far-Right Scarborough to Question Republican Candidates; What’s Next?
08/28/07	Coral Ridge After Kennedy
08/28/07	“God’s Warriors”: Rick Scarborough – “Christ-Ocrat”
08/27/07	Fond Memories
08/27/07	MO Gov. Retains ADF To Protect State Abortion Law
08/27/07	D. James Kennedy Retires From Coral Ridge
08/24/07	"God's Warriors": The Right's "Supreme Vision"
08/24/07	The Devil Went Down to Uganda
08/24/07	One Of These Things Is Not Like the Others
08/24/07	Fidelis Demands Landrieu Denounce Jindal Ad
08/24/07	To The End, Falwell Stood "Right By" His 9/11 Comments
08/23/07	Bauer Clarifies for Thompson
08/23/07	Vision America Still Desperate for Money
08/22/07	Sons of the Father
08/22/07	How Do You Solve a Problem at Ave Maria?
08/22/07	Dobson’s Low Profile Hides Focus on the States
08/22/07	Phyllis and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
08/21/07	The Opening of Ave Maria
08/20/07	Cause or Effect?
08/20/07	Falwell's Life Insurance Pays off Liberty's Debts
08/20/07	CNN Looks at "God's Warriors"
08/20/07	Not Many on The Right Sorry to See Rove Go
08/16/07	Scarborough Decries Presidential Forum: 'What’s Next? The Bestiality Debates?'
08/16/07	Scarborough "Too Strident" For Rove
08/16/07	Some Competition for Liberty and Regent
08/15/07	Trouble for “Justice Sunday” Preacher
08/15/07	Right-Wing Pastor Issues Call for "Imprecatory Prayer" Against AU
08/14/07	Stuck in the Mud, Right Wing Forgets Its Happy Days with Rove
08/14/07	NFL Reaches Out to the Right
08/14/07	The Right Set to Converge On Florida in September
08/13/07	Focus on the Family Goes After Teens
08/13/07	Regent Hopes to Double Enrollment
08/10/07	Seven of Nine Confirmed For "Values Voter Debate"
08/10/07	Religious Right Claims Others Can't Be Christian, Have Values
08/ 9/07	In 1994, Tennessee Christian Coalition Down on Fred Thompson
08/ 8/07	Group Evangelizes to Soldiers with Violent End-Times Video Game
08/ 2/07	New 'Patriot Pastors' Group in Virginia?
08/ 2/07	Publisher, Former Christian Coalition Hire Accused of Fraud
08/ 1/07	The Never-Ending “War on Christians”
07/31/07	Maybe the ACLJ Should Ask Ashcroft
07/31/07	Who Says Iran and the Right Have Nothing in Common?
07/31/07	Still Milking the Senate Prayer Disruption
07/27/07	Vision America Already In Debt
07/26/07	Spitting in the Face of the Facts
07/26/07	Blumenthal at CUFI
07/26/07	Robertson's ACLJ Now Positioned to Shape Global Debate
07/26/07	Religious Right's Ever-Expanding Definition of 'Traditional Values'
07/25/07	“We Need Alan Keyes” Gears Up for Iowa
07/25/07	Surprise! New Right-Wing Video Campaign Long on Propaganda, Short on Truth
07/24/07	Falwell Posthumously Honored
07/24/07	CDC Goes to Iraq Bearing Gifts
07/24/07	ACLJ Taking Over the World
07/23/07	CUFI in DC
07/23/07	Does Gushing Count as an Endorsement?
07/19/07	Klingenchmitt a "Loser as a Chaplain and Naval Officer"
07/18/07	The Nation: Porn Accusations on Romney to Benefit Fred Thompson
07/16/07	Rick Scarborough's Bible: 'He Who Hath the Most Votes Wins'
07/16/07	The Right's "Muted Reaction" to Thompson's Lobbying
07/13/07	That Was Then, This is Now
07/12/07	Klingenschmitt on 'Crusade'
07/12/07	FRC Falls Silen