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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 Bauer, should “sit in” on their [...]

Despite delivering on his promise of wings and Guinness, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry failed to draw a crowd to his news conference at the National Press Club today about, among other things, the recent murder of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Terry repeated his previous statements regarding Tiller’s culpability for “child-killing,” but added [...]

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 that while Jesus wouldn’t torture, he would [...]

It was a full six days ago that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) went after the stimulus package for not allowing money to spent renovating a “sectarian instruction, religious worship or a school or department of divinity.”
It took five more days for Mike Huckabee to discover this and tell his [...]

Back in 2007, I got a kick out of the upset victory of Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), a hard-right gadfly who got to Congress in a special election after his opponent. I sat with Broun in his well-decorated office (still the highest ratio of taxidermied animals to cubic office space I’ve ever encountered) and wrote [...]

With less than a week until the general election, Christians are stepping up their involvement in the race.
There is PrayforSarahPalin.com, a Website that invites Christians to pray for all candidates but singles out Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family for extra prayers.