Rev. Jerry Falwell's Widow Writes Book

The wife of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell has written a book recounting the half-century she spent with the Moral Majority founder.

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Thousands Mourn Falwell at Funeral

The Rev. Jerry Falwell was remembered by thousands Tuesday as a champion of conservative Christian values who fearlessly galvanized the religious right into a powerful force in American politics.

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Television Evangelist Falwell Dies at 73

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the folksy, small-town preacher who used the power of television to found the Moral Majority and turn the Christian right into a mighty force in American politics during the Reagan years, died Tuesday at 73.

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Anderson is standing by his controversial sermon, entitled "Why I Hate Barack Obama." Video of the sermon has hit YouTube, and he's taped explaining why he hates the President and praying for his death.

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Conservative columnist Cal Thomas is most definitely against same-sex marriage, and more broadly he has little good to say about the gay rights movement ("They have taken advantage of a morally exhausted nation…").

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Why America Must Return to the Faith of Our Fathers

Skilled statisticians like George Barna and carefully researched studies from the Pew Reports all show a declining moral climate and a gradual but alarming number of youthful exits from the church in America. Is it chronic, should we be worried?

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SOMEDAY we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug.

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Republican Party, take me off your call list

I've seen the name on my caller ID a few times in the past week or so -- "Republican Party." I was always out when the call came in, and they never left a message.

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James Dobson's retirement as head of Focus on the Family signals the death of the Christian conservative movement. [...]

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What Do I Think about these Fundamentalists?

Somebody asked me this on another seed: Writing Athena, what do you say to all these Christians who are ruining your religion by supporting Republicans and bigots like Dobson? So this was my answer:

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A West Vancouver mother says she is angry a popular clothing store has openly displayed a pornographic magazine featuring explicit homoerotic images.

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Yes, that's what Ken Blackwell, the sketchy former Ohio Secretary of State who now has a good shot at running the Republican National Committee, told me a few months back, among some other very interesting and kooky things.

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Few are writing obituaries this week for the Christian right, which has been wrongly considered dead after setbacks like the demise of the Moral Majority and crumbling of the Christian Coalition.

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America Is In Trouble When The Moral Majority Leads In Only Ethics Violations

McCain and Palin is fueding, and Sen. Stevens Alaska's state's leading republican was convicted on all 7 Counts while those Racist who Focus on Family claim they are Right and Palin promotes teen age pregnacy instead of abstenience.

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This is a wonderful and thought-provoking column exploring what it means to be religious, and how that plays into ones political decisions. The writer presents a list of "faith priorities" for choosing a candidiate which may surprise some readers.

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Dobson's "Possible" Endorsement a Ridiculous Bid for Relevance

In a pair of blog posts from this past February, I made the following remarks about Dobson's ridiculous anti-McCain rantings:

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This past week, Bob Dole dubbed Helms a "conservative icon" and Trent Lott said that Helms was "one of the giants of the '80s and '90s in the United States Senate." Lott and Dole were not alone.

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McCain's Veep Pick: Catering to the Religious Right?

With the election now less than six months away, both presidential hopefuls are busy looking for a vice-president who will bring that certain je ne sais quoi to their respective campaigns.

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Appeasement, Religious Radicals and John McCain's Tightrope Act

Back in March, I wrote about John McCain's courting of the radical religious conservative vote-- in particular, his courtship of the endorsements of pastors such as John Hagee and Rod Parsley.

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The United States of White America: A response

In my article on John McCain, Newsviner Nathan Alan opinedMcCain, right now, should be where Obama found himself when Farakhaun gave an endorsement. ...He isn't and there is a double standard.

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John McCain Courts the Radical Right Religious Vote

Yes, yes, I know. The airwaves have positively been sizzling over Barack Obama's "close association" with "racists" (in the form of a church which seeks to support "black culture").

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Frank Schaeffer spent several years making a good living writing books promoting the Religious Right's worldview and speaking before rapturous crowds of fundamentalist Christians.

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That I find this story so hilarious probably says more about me than the cross-dressing federal judge in question, but as they say these days, it is what it is. The punch line is probably the best part.

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The big news in the political world today is Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor whose past positions on the "God, guns, and gays" trifecta that animates many religious voters in the United States are anathema to the religious right.

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On the campaign trail, those hoping to run for president next year still feel a need to espouse their religious beliefs, though there seems to have been something of a shift.

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This CNN special report deals with people of each Abrahamic faith that view themselves as god's warriors and how that view leads to political action and involvement. This series aired over the weekend, I only caught half of the Christianity segment and half of the Muslim segment.

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Christiane Amanpour Reports - CNN Airs Controversial "Gods Warriors"

The three part series on Christianity, Islam and Judaism is an enormous six hour long undertaking presented by veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour who is known to millions of Americans for her stellar reporting during the early days of the Iraq war.

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