Christian right regroups after Obama victory

Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved."

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IRS: Charities Overstepping Into Politics

IRS exams found nearly three out of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of having violated restraints on political activity in the 2004 election actually did so, the agency said Friday.

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Religious Groups Get Chunk of AIDS Money

New groups are springing up to win a piece of President Bush's $15 billion AIDS program, with traditional players and religious groups joining forces to improve their chances in a competition that already has targeted nearly a quarter of its grants for faith-based organizations.

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Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."

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Even as the Republicans try to shift focus to what they see as the Democrats' loss of political capital, the ruptures in the GOP just won't disappear. Now, Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., has brought the spotlight back to the party's warring factions.

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In a commentary on his show, The 700 Club, Robertson noted that the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, Nidal Malik Hasan, had come to the attention of authorities prior to the rampage by emailing a radical cleric and trying to contact Al Qaeda.

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Obama signed into Law Hate Crimes Bill of 2009 or HR 1913 on October 28th of 2009. ...

Huffington Post's Paul Legendre reported that Secretary of State Clinton recently underlined the importance of combating hate crime, at the launch of the State Department's 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom by proclaiming that the best antidote to religious in …

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"In the wake of the horrific act of Islamic domestic terrorism at Fort Hood Texas, it has been learned that militant homosexual activists recently made similar online postings to those of Nidal Malik Hasan, threatening additional acts of terrorism against Christians," stated an e …

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In a column posted yesterday on the Web site of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, writer Kimberly Daniels issued an ominous warning:

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Now, I'm not sure who appointed Odom the spokesman for the liberty movement, but he seems to have forgotten that an essential component of that movement is, oddly enough, support for liberty. In all its forms.

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Man Flaunts in Woman's Bathing Suit...Exposed He Wears It To Jail.

Picture it you're sitting on your Oklahoma front porch enjoying a cool drink, admiring the Fall weather and dead leaves falling off trees and this guy walks up to you in a woman's swimsuit all gussied up and begins (in his mind) to entertain you...that is when the Lady Ga-diva mu …

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Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as "Satan's Bibles," according to the website.

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None of these talking points would be novel on the left, but Schaeffer is hardly a bleeding heart liberal. His father, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, is considered to be the godfather of the modern religious right movement.

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Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of sixteen novels (so far!) represents everything that is most deranged about religion.

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Among the growing minority that has recognized our loss of liberty and the importance of regaining it, there are many who mistakenly say that the United States was "founded as a Christian nation," and that only returning to Christian principles will solve our problems.

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excerpt: "" The eager young men at Conservapedia are p.o.'d that the Bible might be seen as too liberal. So they've come up with the Wiki-style Conservative Bible Project, to make sure the Lord doesn't go all wobbly on us. ""

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It hasn't been much noticed, but the religious right seems to have been displaced as the GOP's primary grass-roots force.

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Rachel Maddow: Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ? The following is a transcript from Rachel Maddow's Sept. 16 show of her interview with Christian Right expert Frank Schaeffer:

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Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once tried to scrub itself of the lingering taint of prejudice.

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Lynn is the only person to appear on the list who is not an elected leader or government official.

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excerpt: "" Not to put too fine a point on it, but Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is not exactly known as a towering intellect, although he's a panderer to wingnuts par excellence.

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A new survey about religion in America has the Religious Right all worked up.

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The GOP is now the Taliban of the U.S.

I was unaware that America had been lost. I was cognizant of our last election that went over with little doubt as to the winner. Certainly not requiring massive recounts or intervention by the Supreme Court to name a winner.

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The Religious Right's Crusade on the Truth: One Man's Account

First and foremost, this article is indeed a qualitative, personal account of a conversation I had with a close friend and subsequent reflection I had as a result of the conversation.

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Federal tax law bars the use of tax-exempt resources by churches and other non-profits to support or oppose candidates. It does not, however, restrict comment on public issues.

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If you've ever stood in a pet shop and watched Siamese fighting fish attack their reflection in a glass tank, then you know what it's like to read a fascinating new survey of more than 3,000 religious activists on the left and the right.

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excerpt: "" It seems the film Creation, a major-production biopic about Charles Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, won't be seen in the United States because no distributor with the guts to stand up to the religious right in this country can be found:

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