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Perry Prayer Event “Getting Traction” with Religious Right Elites

More religious right leaders sign up.
Sarah Posner
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Bryan Fischer’s and the GOP’s Special Christian First Amendment

Radio host says the First Amendment doesn’t apply to Muslims.
Sarah Posner
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ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

The GCB pilot is being criticized by conservative Christian groups as “hate speech” and “misogyny.” How lovely that they’re taking feminism seriously!
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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Religion Dispatches

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

It long predates Beck.
Sarah Posner
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AFA: Native Americans Lost their Land for Not Being Christians

So sayeth American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer.
Daniel Schultz
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Sarah Palin: Too Soft on GOP Gays For Some

Palin takes heat for her refusal to denounce gay Republican presence at CPAC.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Should The Senate Listen To A Court-Martialed Chaplain on DADT?

Letter signed by radical anti-gay activists claims 40 million followers oppose DADT repeal.
Sarah Posner
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Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

Repeal wouldn’t damage religious freedom.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

What goes on between some people’s ears is greasier than a Thanksgiving turkey dipped in used motor oil.
Daniel Schultz
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The Democrats, The Gays, And The Evangelicals

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell cowardice.
Sarah Posner
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