Stories by Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner is associate editor of Religion Dispatches and author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters. Read her blog or follow her on Twitter.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012, Source: Salon
Mitt Romney has been wooing evangelical voters for months. Will he now connect these issues to his own faith?
Posted on Feb 23, 2012, Source: Salon
Put aside opinion polls and the Komen and Virginia wins. The right's strategy is long-term and based in the courts.
Posted on Nov 20, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free
Alleged would-be presidential assassin Ortega-Hernandez reportedly called Obama 'the Antichrist.' So who put that idea in his head?
Posted on Jul 19, 2011, Source: Religion Dispatches
When Oral Roberts University sought to set up a law school, it called in Christian Reconstructionist Herb Titus. Michele Bachmann is the law school's most famous graduate.
Posted on May 13, 2011, Source: Conscience
Taxpayer dollars are continuing to be dispensed to religious groups via a secretive and controversial government office.
Posted on Apr 27, 2011, Source: The American Prospect
Religious zealotry plays an equal if not more significant role in Tea Party politics than its obsession with budget deficits and government spending.
Posted on Apr 1, 2011, Source: Religion Dispatches
How the American right demonizes Islam for political gain.
Posted on Feb 21, 2011, Source: Religion Dispatches
The cultish Evangelical leader Bill Gothard espouses a theology that tells men to rule over their families, and for wives and kids to submit entirely, no matter the circumstances.
Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: The Nation Institute
In Wisconsin, where Tea Party candidate Ron Johnson is surging, Americans for Prosperity has been hard at work to manipulate the vote.
Posted on Oct 15, 2010, Source: Religion Dispatches
"I'd much rather be working in the secular world than for a ministry," said the founder's former secretary, still a conservative and devout Christian. "The secular world is nicer."
Posted on Sep 9, 2010, Source: Religion Dispatches
Ralph Reed hopes to bury his past by bringing together the two most energetic right-wing movements: the Tea Party and the religious right.
Posted on Jul 12, 2010, Source: Religion Dispatches
Christian Reconstructionists believe civil government should be reformed according to the dictates of biblical law. Some advocate for followers to take up arms.
Posted on Jun 24, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Despite her claim to a conservative form of feminism, Sarah Palin will never lead the religious right for one simple reason: She's a woman.
Posted on May 27, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Dr. Timothy F. Johnson's past doesn't point to him being the GOP's great, black hope.
Posted on Apr 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
A diversity summit at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University reveals that the religious right's survival depends on the black and the brown.
Posted on Mar 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Original investigative report: How a media-savvy, tough-talking duo are putting their knowledge of youth culture in the service of the paranoid Christian Right.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
A very strange pick -- Pastor Rick Warren opposes gay marriage, doesn't believe in evolution and compared abortion to the Holocaust.
Posted on Sep 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Why did the GOP choose a political neophyte to appeal to the religious right over a seasoned politico? Fried squirrels and economic populism.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008, Source: PoliPoint Press
A look into the shady finances and manipulative politics of America's leading televangelist hucksters.
Posted on Oct 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Why Gingrich's latest attempt to promote himself as a high-tech visionary falls flat.
Posted on Jul 23, 2007, Source: AlterNet
At the Christians United for Israel Summit, Joe Lieberman embraces the Christian nation, Jewish journalists get expelled, and attendees fret about the Iranian president's "12th Imam."
Posted on Apr 6, 2007, Source: The Washington Spectator
A look at the Christian Right's legal muscle leading the fight to end the separation of church and state.
Posted on Mar 23, 2007, Source: AlterNet
A trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma lays bare the fundamentalism that made the disgraced pastor Ted Haggard live in terror of his own homosexuality.
Posted on Mar 16, 2007, Source: The American Prospect
The Israel lobby gives America's leading Christian Right warmonger a warm welcome.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Is Bush pushing for a second war or a Second Coming?
Posted on Oct 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Some prominent proselytizers hope to save America -- and the world -- by doing some "sneaky preaching" through a new movie they're calling "one of the greatest outreach tools of the church in this century."
Posted on Sep 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Republican presidential candidates fell all over themselve to pander to religious conservatives at last weekend's "Values Voter Summit" -- billed as the most important political event in the Christian Right's history. An AlterNet reporter covered the scene.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it's not about geopolitics -- it's about bringing about the End Times.
Posted on Apr 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Religious broadcasters are squeezing community radio right off the FM dial.
Posted on Mar 1, 2005, Source: Gadflyer
Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes?
