https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to mike pence en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/06/2023-cpac-lived-down-expectations-dont-buy-narrative-gop-not-divided-you-might-think Considering that CPAC is the largest conservative conference in the US, the line-up of their 2023 conference was distinctly unimpressive, with some notable names absent from the list of speakers . While Mitch McConnell hasn’t been invited to CPAC in… Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:43:20 EST Annika Brockschmidt 478c4d63-ff3b-4e9a-a662-a5ab2c5bb83b https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/11/how-do-you-beat-pretty-damning-impeachment-case-you-lie The House Democrats presented evidence Wednesday substantiating the allegation that, on January 6, Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the United States. For about eight hours, to be followed today by another eight hours, the impeachment managers showed a pattern… Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:56:35 EST John Stoehr c41a5b6e-7ed5-4496-bfa6-11d99c3af882 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/08/2021-national-prayer-breakfast-kinder-gentler-christian-capitalism The 2021 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB), held annually the first Thursday in February and attended by every sitting President since its founding in 1953, reverted this year to dishing out their faith based programming on fine china in lieu of… Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:54:14 EST Becky Garrison dcc3c6ca-fd06-497e-8bca-c8d873dad6f2 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/10/30/shockingly-tone-deaf-gop-has-evangelical-rabbi-pray-pittsburgh-victims-updated Inviting a messianic Jew to say a prayer for the victims of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence in American history is like sprinkling bacon bits on an eff-you sandwich. Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:37:54 EDT Daniel Schultz aae7df8f-06b2-4355-b62c-6b08038722ff https://religiondispatches.org/2018/08/02/trump-administration-not-so-subtly-christianizing-foreign-policy-and-aid Under previous administrations, the U.S. government—particularly foreign aid and arms—did not directly intervene to promote the narrative of global Christian victimhood. Thu, 02 Aug 2018 01:42:13 EDT Murali Balaji 8fe51798-efcf-43ad-be44-a1b419b88f42 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/02/pence-defends-us-immigration-policy-guatemala-using-scripture After all the uproar over Jeff Sessions’ use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the U.S. border, you might be tempted to bet against administration members citing scripture. Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:35:49 EDT Daniel Schultz d94aa403-3dbc-4c64-a642-390033428fcc https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/05/indiana-republicans-are-debating-gay-marriage-amongst-themselves-0 Social conservatives are gearing up for a fight in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state to make sure the party doesn’t define “strong families” in a way that could include gay and lesbian families. While the old party platform committed… Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:26:03 EDT Daniel Silliman c7551b84-2551-4532-842d-047abb80e77b https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/05/indiana-republicans-are-debating-gay-marriage-amongst-themselves Social conservatives are gearing up for a fight in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state to make sure the party doesn’t define “strong families” in a way that could include gay and lesbian families. While the old party platform committed… Tue, 05 Jun 2018 01:48:38 EDT Daniel Silliman 5bd63489-749a-4fbf-8a5b-a86b3b271256 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/02/seth-meyers-tries-unpack-trumps-faith-narcissistic-prosperity-gospel On Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a break from lampooning the breaking news that constantly dribbles out of the White House, instead focusing on “Trump’s evolving views on faith, religion, and separation of church… Wed, 02 Aug 2017 04:33:39 EDT Sunnivie Brydum a7a30e44-3285-4224-ab23-7ee2a8583bcd https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/08/pences-prayer-breakfast-appearance-underscores-fractured-american-catholicism The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was founded in 2004 as part of an effort to cement ties between conservative Catholics, the Catholic hierarchy, and the GOP. Among those associated with it… Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:34:44 EDT Patricia Miller 70ccb19c-1745-45c8-9460-67b65319c489 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/04/why-trumps-religious-liberty-order-whole-lot-nothing This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead, it’s a vague, largely symbolic gesture that seems intended to appease the… Thu, 04 May 2017 06:47:36 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 081ec1d1-7c23-4ddd-92a8-871317920a62 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/03/video-sam-bee-roasts-president-pence-americas-coming-theocracy While some of Washington’s most revered journalists were being roasted by The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a different (though no less distinguished) crowd gathered at another D.C. hotel to join Full Frontal host… Wed, 03 May 2017 06:57:20 EDT Sunnivie Brydum e0499bc4-df49-45fc-8d63-7b935c20be1c https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/02/video-first-generation-indian-american-muslim-kid-makes-fun-president-onstage In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show’s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D.C. press corps and the absent Trump administration to the biting, funny-because-its-true… Tue, 02 May 2017 12:30:30 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 223099c5-0000-454e-8d3b-7d43a86098bc https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/13/aclus-religious-freedom-suit-against-trump-order-gerrymandered-target-muslims President Trump’s controversial travel ban is “religiously gerrymandered to target Muslims,” says ACLU senior staff attorney Heather Weaver. Mon, 13 Feb 2017 02:53:00 EST Sunnivie Brydum 0c30bd4f-f541-4112-916c-11775bb4e81d https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/26/religious-freedom-president-gutting-rest-1st-amendment For all his talk of protecting religious freedom, one of the First Amendment’s five sacred rights, it’s taken President Donald Trump less than one week to start kicking the legs out from under each of the others. The new administration… Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:08:02 EST Sunnivie Brydum 76bd18bc-6df9-42be-88ce-4318acddc880 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/02/these-are-new-battlegrounds-lgbt-rights-under-trump As Inauguration Day nears, and as our new, orange-tinted reality sets in, it behooves all Americans who believe in fairness and equality to take stock of what we’re up against — because that’s how we’ll be able to resist it… Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:00:42 EST Sunnivie Brydum a2800398-5707-47e9-b2bb-f657d1775839 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/12/meet-new-christian-right-same-old-christian-right It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan. Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:24:45 EST Patricia Miller 71d4c3bf-7025-4e13-8698-c0ebee5ded6b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/02/why-we-cant-afford-wait-and-see-how-trump-dismantles-lgbt-rights If you have the privilege of being able to “wait and see” how the Trump administration comes after your family, please use that safety to speak out. Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:26:30 EST Sunnivie Brydum 875bfc40-6fce-4305-89ce-08e611a7f2de https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/22/how-long-trump-claims-religious-freedom-avoid-paying-taxes The existing evidence suggests Trump is a master at avoiding paying what he owes. Tue, 22 Nov 2016 02:30:13 EST Sunnivie Brydum c19608e6-997f-4f1f-a256-8f4f7ac6f0f7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/31/jeb-bush-confused-about-religious-freedom Jeb Bush is defending Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s faulty defense of his state’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like Pence, Bush is wrong, but Bush’s elaboration laid bare his considerable confusion about the issue. The Washington Post reports: “I… Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:30:37 EDT Sarah Posner 1748885d-3125-4e85-9c12-27ea96c374e9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/30/how-indianas-new-rfra-expands-federal-rfra Over the weekend, Indiana’s Republican Governor, Mike Pence, insisted that the new Religious Freedom Restoration Act he signed into law week is just like the federal RFRA, enacted in 1993, and doesn’t permit discrimination cloaked in religion. This same claim—that… Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:04:49 EDT Sarah Posner 39bdb441-9ab2-4abc-a6cc-5495da4574d5 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/12/gods-law-only-law-genesis-michele-bachmann At the May “First Friday” lecture hosted by the Institute on the Constitution at the Heritage Community Church in Severn, Maryland, IOTC founder Michael Peroutka presented the evening’s guest speaker, attorney Herb Titus, with a “Patrick Henry Award” for “his tireless and fearless telling of God’s truth to power.” Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:57:35 EDT Sarah Posner 78a68eef-3755-4a01-891d-6b8a5ecc23b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/15/evangelical-sex-disconnect Republicans attack Planned Parenthood over sex and contraception, but their base may care to differ. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:56:31 EDT Sarah Posner 2277cced-a3f8-4503-bbd0-050b7929f04f https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/11/5-reasons-why-gop-push-defund-planned-parenthood-wont-go-away The religious zealotry behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood means the budget deal is not the end of the Republican effort. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:21:47 EDT Sarah Posner f15a266e-ac79-4d42-9fe6-4e4ed322362d https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/18/lila-rose-defunding-planned-parenthood-and-christian-worldview What the “Christian worldview” has to do with the Pence Amendment. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:40:13 EST Sarah Posner 276d80a1-7aa1-404f-bcba-61f056a164e4