You know, I’m trying to stay out of this Rick Warren business a bit because I understand and even sympathize with the need to bridge the gap between evil lib’rulz and conservative evangelicals, find some common ground, etc. But then I see krep like this and it just p*sses me off:
Today, NBC’s Ann Curry aired […]

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Regarding this Alliance Defense Fund (right-wing Christian organization) ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedAr31uiwo

Sullivan writes:
The importance of portraying 2 percent of the population as far more powerful than the 98 percent and the need to keep that 2 percent from destroying civilization - and allegedly making Christianity illegal - has some interesting historical forebears.
Well, it’s not just right-wing Christians; that’s […]

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Uh-oh. I see where Newsweek is oppressing poor conservative Christians by running a big piece on “The religious case for gay marriage”:
Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when […]

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Hilarious. So in Washington state, there’s been conotroversy over the “holiday tree” (by the Association of Washington Business, for 19 years) erected in the state capitol. The wingers hate the name, obviously. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer tells us:
That prompted a lawmaker from Spokane to stage a protest at the Capitol, demanding the holiday tree be […]

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Hm. Via Daniel Larison, Rod Dreher has a piece in USA Today from Monday arguing that the GOP would be foolish to toss religious conservatives overboard - but at the same time, he says, the nature of religious conservatism has to evolve:
Times change. Today, the greatest threats to conservative interests come not from the Soviet […]

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Because, see, if a store doesn’t actually use the word “Christmas” then the store hates Christmas and is trying to destroy Christmas, and good red-blooded God-fearing American loons shouldn’t shop there.
According to Dr. James Dobson:
Eight firms caved immediately: Best Buy, Cabela’s, Kohl’s, Lowe’s, Nordstrom, Pier 1, Toys R Us and Wal-Mart.
The Gap, Banana Republic and […]

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Dr. James Dobson responds to Kathleen Parker - well, he had to, didn’t he?
So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George […]

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Hm. Via Sullivan, an extremely provacative interview with gay Catholic Mexican-American (!) author Richard Rodriguez on California’s Proposition 8, and the hypocrisy he sees behind what he terms a ”deliberate civic intrusion” by the churches. Exerpts:
American families are under a great deal of stress. The divorce rate isn’t declining, it’s increasing. And the majority of American […]

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Sure, you want the likes of me to take you seriously. And I’d love to. But you’ve really got to knock it off with the Obama-as-antichrist business if you want that to happen.

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What I like most about Steve Cornell’s column in our paper last weekend on Teh Dreaded Gay is one single line:
We will be under the tyranny of tolerance and no exception will be tolerated!
The tyranny of tolerance!
My goodness. How despotic to ask that all people, regardless of whom they might be sleeping with, have […]

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Via Sullivan, Steven Waldman notes that more evangelicals voted for McCain-Palin than for George W. Bush:
It seemed like 2004 was a high water mark for evangelical influence. They loved President Bush and helped sweep him into victory.
Well guess what: evangelicals made up an even bigger part of the McCain vote than the Bush vote.
Born again […]

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A little bit of schadenfreude as we read of Dr. James Dobson wringing his hands in the wake of Obama’s election:
Dr. Dobson went on to congratulate Obama on “his stunning victory.”
“It was indeed a historic accomplishment, to be the first black man in American history to be elected to the highest office in the land.
“But, to […]

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Hm. Fascinating New Yorker piece on sexual attitudes among the young - and how they differ in red states and blue states. In a nutshell:
Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a […]

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Dauphin Co. reader who saw the post here on that “non-partisan” Pa. Family Voters Guide sends me something he’d sent to the Patriot-News when he thought it was their doing… they said it wasn’t. So worth publishing her thoughts here:

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Note from a colleague:
…on NPR this morning: Again, the old “abortion/same-sex marriage” response, followed by
“The country can go broke. As long as we have morals, the Lord will watch over us,”
Sweet. We don’t need to do anything about the economy. So long as God is hooking us up - it’s all good!
Whew.
Funny, then, to see […]

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…I gotta find me some shades.
Via Pastor Dan, Focus on the Family - Dobson’s organization - tells us what will become of the U.S. by 2012 unless you follow God’s mandate to vote Republican:
Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a Democratic majority in both the House and […]

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How about, “very.”
Just got the Pennsylvania Family Institute’s voters guide inside this week’s Merchandiser. “An impartial, non-partisan guide to the November 4 election.”
Right.
Just for a taste, let’s look at the presidential race. We’ve got 14 areas the Pa. Family Institute lists as issues. In this order:
1. Traditional marriage in Federal Law - supports federal Defense […]

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Amazing, actually - read the whole thing. But again, the one thing that jumps out:
Dobson says to her, “We’re on the same team. I’m just trying to serve the lord as you are.” He notes that he and other ministers have prayed for “God’s intervention” and that “God’s perfect will will be done in November […]

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Palin to James Dobson:

“I know at the end of the day, putting this in God’s hands, the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4,” the GOP vice presidential nominee told James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, who interviewed Palin by phone Monday in Colorado. […]

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Via Sullivan and Reddit. Just… wow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wQfQtpDAc

Real America, baby.

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