Remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about the right's increasing animosity towards the Girl Scouts? As this story out of Indiana helps demonstrate, it's apparently getting worse. A Fort Wayne lawmaker has refused to sign on to a resolution cele

Rick Santorum's claim that the Netherlands advocates mass murder through involuntary euthanasia has prompted a furious backlash from the Western European country, with local news sources calling the Republican a "crazy extreme" candidate making up facts

Our pastor told us an interesting story about James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. James was the captain of his college tennis team. He worked hard for years training to get to that position. One year he received a trophy honoring him as the top

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The volatility of his campaign for president has eclipsed it, but a major decision looms over Newt Gingrich: how to introduce Callista Gingrich, both as a fully functioning partner in his bid for the White House, and as a worthy candidate for the unelect

How would the members of the HRC board feel if a group of labor unions got together and decided to nominate an antigay bigot like Rick Santorum, Gary Bauer or James Dobson to head a national campaign for workers’ rights? Taking a page out of corporate gr

This is an extremely unfortunate error by the HRC, which in making Blankfein a spokesman for this important political campaign has allowed one of the most relentless enemies of the poor and the disadvantaged to use the gay and lesbian community to buy mo

"I am severely conservative," Mitt Romney told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday. Way to sell it, governor! Clearly the Romney-2012 Presidential Unit still has a few bugs in its pandering software. The former Massachusett

Obama's manifesto on contraceptives is giving Republicans something to crow about. Culture-war conservatives had a great week. The news was all bad. Religion is no longer about redemption and salvation; it’s about sex and politics. And in politics, as in

It's happening again. A hubbub over John Piper saying God wants the church to have a "masculine" feel. The last hubbub hasn't even died down—the one sparked by Mark Driscoll saying women should keep themselves up so their husbands won't cheat (or was it

"Like" the Patheos Evangelical Page on Facebook to receive today's best commentary on Evangelical issues. It's happening again. A hubbub over John Piper saying God wants the church to have a "masculine" feel. The last hubbub hasn't even died down—the one

Welcome to the Calpine Corporation Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Investor Update Conference Call. My name is Mitchell and I will be your operator for today’s call. (Operator Instructions) Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now

Conservatives' antipathy towards the Girl Scouts has generally been found on the fringes. In 1994, for example, James Dobson's Focus on the Family published a memorable attack on the Girl Scouts, insisting the group "lost their way" after the Scouts made

GOLDEN, Colo. But in Colorado’s Republican Party, the divide between traditional party pragmatists and the forces of passion – a local and potent brew of evangel

The Durango Herald's Joe Hanel, who has done an admirable job this week accurately covering the statements of GOP presidential primary candidates on tour in Colorado--in marked contrast to the inconsequential fluff prevailing from most local media: Mitt

Well, well, mirabile dictu, your preferred candidate, The Sweet Meteor of Death, (or a close facsimile thereof) has just swept Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota. What a hoot! Not sure this is my preferred route or thine, but it sure beats the coronation

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum easily won Missouri's nonbinding Republican presidential primary Tuesday, claiming momentum in his challenge against national front-runner Mitt Romney even though the victory won't earn h

Tuesday is the first multiple-state contest in the Republican presidential race, and there's more at stake than just delegates. A combined 70 delegates are up for grabs in Colorado and Minnesota, while none will be awarded in Missouri's non-binding prima

The Christian Right, a loose coalition of conservative evangelicals and fiscally conservative Catholics who make up around forty per cent of the Republican Party, going into the primary season hoped to play a significant role in determining the eventual