The Washington Independent

Posts Tagged Gary Bauer

S.C. Focus on the Family affiliate says Perry’s views on N.Y. gay marriage are ‘slippery’

By | 07.27.11 | 10:57 am

The leader of South Carolina’s Focus on the Family affiliate, the Palmetto Family Council, was among several conservative leaders recently asked to weigh in on the same-sex-marriage views of speculated presidential contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Like many of the other leaders, Palmetto Family President Oran Smith was less than More…

Breitbart Bets Rep. John Lewis $10,000 That No One Hurled the ‘N-Word’ at Him

By | 03.26.10 | 9:41 am

My story today focuses on the pushback from conservatives who have issued apologies for some far-out behavior by a few activists last weekend. Andrew Breitbart goes further than anyone I quoted. Breitbart, like Gary Bauer, accuses Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) of More…

Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper’ Agent

By | 11.06.09 | 5:19 pm

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ‘sleeper cells’ or ‘sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ticking time bombs More…

NY-23: Conservatives Struggle to Find an Anti-Pelosi Angle

By | 11.04.09 | 2:27 pm

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — On a conference call with some of the conservative leaders who’d backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s upstart campaign in NY-23, I asked for a response to an uncomfortable argument about the results. Hoffman and the outside groups who backed him tried very hard to link More…

Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ‘Unprecedented’ Abuse of Power

By | 09.02.09 | 6:26 pm

Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ways.” Parents, writes More…

Gary Bauer: Palin Won a Battle in the Culture Wars

By | 06.22.09 | 9:09 am

Conservative activist Gary Bauer pens an interesting column for Human Events that casts Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) feud with David Letterman (remember that? It was before the Iranian election) as a victory for conservatives in the culture wars.

Letterman has enjoyed a temporary ratings boost, but there’s deeper meaning

More…

Anti-Abortion Groups Dodge Fallout From Tiller Murder

By | 06.03.09 | 1:31 pm

On Sunday, when he heard that abortion doctor George Tiller had been murdered outside of his Wichita, Kans. church, Fr. Frank Pavone was “overcome by sadness.” He had opposed Tiller’s work vociferously, for many years. But he didn’t want the fight against his late-term abortion practice to end like this. More…

Would Jesus Authorize Torture?

By | 05.13.09 | 4:01 pm

Yes, according to one famous conservative Christian.

The Associated Press asks prominent evangelicals and leaders of the religious right if Jesus would condone torture. Some evangelicals say every life is sacred and torture is not peaceful and therefore incongruent with Christian teachings. But religious right leader Gary Bauer says More…

Specter Switch Gives Conservatives Second Thoughts About ‘RINO’ Hunting

By | 04.28.09 | 5:01 pm

This wasn’t what conservatives were expecting to talk about today. The news that Sen. Arlen Specter, the senior Republican in the Senate, would switch to the Democratic Party, came out of the blue after weeks of denials that the senator would ever do such a thing.

Inside the Club for More…