Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit
Judging by this past weekend’s marquee event on the conservative calendar, the center of gravity is moving from religious right to Tea Partiers, from homosexuality to taxes. A closer look, however, reveals the growing symbiosis between the two.
It may be fun to laugh at the gaffes of some on the religious right, but progressives should resist the temptation to dismiss religious conservatives as simple ignoramuses: they’re tapping into a powerful narrative.
This weekend’s premier religious right gathering saw same-sex marriage score low in a poll. Has something significant happened?
Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign
The religious right’s preferred presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee recently returned from a visit to Israel. What prompted Time to call it his first campaign stop in the 2012 race?
RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008
Evangelicals on torture; BornAliveTruth.org targets Obama; Focus on the Family and gays; the Evangelical Youth Vote; Regnery's Islamophobia; the Religious Left