james dobson

Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation.

Satirist and right-wing watcher Becky Garrison imagines a memorial for a movement.

Wasn’t it?

Listen up evangelicals and conservative Christians.

How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center.

Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible?

Karen Santorum: praiseworthy. Callista Gingrich: slut.

Religion and science in couples therapy.

But even while the language and the tone of anti-gay evangelical groups is beginning to shift, the reality is that while the language of anti- bullying has been adopted by groups like Focus on the Family, the theological and ideological currents that produce the reality of anti- gay bullying remain unquestioned.

It long predates Beck.