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Christian Right

Religion Dispatches
Review: D. Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power and Sean McCloud’s Divine Hierarchies.
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Religion Dispatches
It’s inappropriate to compare Wright with Falwell, Robertson, or Hagee, who lay the ills of society at the door of America’s “usual suspects.”
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Religion Dispatches
Has Iowa adhered to its long history of justice or is preventing two men from marrying each other no different than prohibiting a man from marrying his house plant.
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Religion Dispatches
Is there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?
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Religion Dispatches
Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.
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Public Eye
How the Right Succeeded in Passing Proposition 8
On June 26, 2008, 1,000 ministers, mostly from evangelical congregations, met by conference call to discuss tactics for passing Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same sex marriage in California by amending the state constitution.
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Religion Dispatches
Newt Gingrich may be a Catholic now, but he’s still going for the jugular.
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Political Research Associates
Selections from Scott Lively’s presentations at a conference in Kampala, Uganda in March 2009
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Religion Dispatches
A growing movement among conservative Christians exhorts women to give up the foolish notion of independence and subordinate themselves to their husbands. In this excerpt from Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, Kathryn Joyce connects the dots between cinnamon buns and submission.
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