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.

Is America Losing Its Religion?

Posted on: Oct 10, 2012, Source: The Guardian

Americans are becoming less religious. But don't expect the Religious Right to just give up.

How Long Can Romney Keep Quiet About His Mormonism While He Panders to Evangelicals?

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?

Are Conservatives Winning the War on Women? How the Religious Lobbying Industry Truly Threatens Our Rights

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.

Right-Wing End-Times Theology and the Politics of the Antichrist Smear

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?

Inside the Right-Wing Christian Law School That Brought Us Michele Bachmann

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.

Obama's Religion Problem: White House Funnels Money to Discriminatory Religious Groups

Posted on: May 13, 2011, Source: Conscience

Taxpayer dollars are continuing to be dispensed to religious groups via a secretive and controversial government office.

The Christian Right Extremists Behind the GOP's War on Women

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.

Welcome to the Shari'ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

Posted on: Apr 1, 2011, Source: Religion Dispatches

How the American right demonizes Islam for political gain.

Cultish Christian Leader Teaches Women Should Submit to Husbands -- Victims of His "Submission Theology" Speak Out

Posted on: Feb 20, 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.

Inside Americans for Prosperity's Scheme to Suppress Votes in Wisconsin

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.

Christian Right Insiders Reveal Racism, Virulent Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Homophobia in Prominent Religious Group

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."

Ralph Reed is Back, Hoping to Harness the Energy of the Tea Party Movement

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.

Extremist Christians Aim to Create Armed Militias Against "Godless" Federal Government

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.

Why Sarah Palin Will Never Lead the Religious Right

Posted on: Jun 23, 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.

Is the GOP's Point Man for Recruiting Black Candidates Hiding a Fake Ph.D. and a Violent Past?

Posted on: May 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Dr. Timothy F. Johnson's past doesn't point to him being the GOP's great, black hope.

Exposing the Christian Right's New Racial Playbook

Posted on: Apr 27, 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.

Actor Stephen Baldwin Takes Christian Indoctrination to the Xtreme

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.

Conservative Anti-Choice Pastor Picked for Obama's Inauguration

Posted on: Dec 17, 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.

Palin, Huckabee and the GOP's 'Hick Factor'

Posted on: Sep 8, 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.

God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the GOP Crusade for Values Voters

Posted on: Jan 21, 2008, Source: PoliPoint Press

A look into the shady finances and manipulative politics of America's leading televangelist hucksters.

Gingrich Reinvents Himself in the Virtual Reality World

Posted on: Oct 8, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Why Gingrich's latest attempt to promote himself as a high-tech visionary falls flat.

Theocrats Deny 'End Times' Theology Is Cause of Their Push for War With Iran

Posted on: Jul 22, 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."

An Army of Christian Right Lawyers Is Waging War on the Constitution

Posted on: Apr 5, 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.

Ted Haggard's Hell on Earth

Posted on: Mar 22, 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.

The Goy Who Cried Wolf

Posted on: Mar 15, 2007, Source: The American Prospect

The Israel lobby gives America's leading Christian Right warmonger a warm welcome.

As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse

Posted on: Jan 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Is Bush pushing for a second war or a Second Coming?

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."

The Religious Right Goes to Washington

Posted on: Sep 29, 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.

Lobbying for Armageddon

Posted on: Aug 2, 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.

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