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Tea Party Shifts Focus to Kentucky

Jane Yager — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:16:08 CDT

After taking down Bob Bennett in Utah, the Tea Party has a new target: Kentucky. Tea Party activists and other conservative critics yesterday shifted their sights to the state's mid-May primary for their next big challenge to a political establishment they have vowed to upend. The Kentucky race pits Secretary...

Women's Groups Rip Super Bowl Anti-Abortion Ad

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:33:13 CST

Furious women's groups are demanding that CBS yank a controversial anti-abortion Super Bowl ad by an ultra-conservative evangelical organization. It's the first time Focus on the Family, which battles gay marriage and abortion rights, is spending millions to deliver its message during the NFL's big game. "We urge you to...

Olbermann to Prejean: WTF!?!

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:00:51 CDT

Keith Olbermann ripped “holier-than-thou know-it-all” Carrie Prejean in the new “WTF!?!” segment of his show last night, Gawker reports. “This is no longer about her opinion, it’s about her,” Olbermann insisted, tweaking the beauty queen on the First Amendment: “Your grandfather did not fight to protect your right to...

Prejean: 'Satan Set Gay Trap for Me'

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:07:02 CDT

Miss California has told a Christian radio program that "Satan tried to tempt me" with the gay marriage pageant question that rocketed her into controversy. "I wanted to sound politically correct" and win the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean told evangelical leader James Dobson yesterday. "Then God was in my...

Sick of Compromise, Christian Right Drops Politics

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:04:22 CDT

A new generation of religious conservatives is turning its back on political activism, Kathleen Parker writes in the Washington Post . Today's Moral Majority accuses Christian leaders like James Dobson of bringing the cultural wars from churches to Congress and compromising their beliefs. Now, “Dobson and the Christian right political movement...

Focus on the Family Chair Dobson Resigns

Kevin Spak — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:53:01 CST

James Dobson is stepping down from his perch atop Focus on the Family, the AP reports, saying he wants to “lessen his administrative burden.” The conservative evangelist said he’ll keep playing a big role in the organization he founded, and will keep pushing his political agenda. Though Focus on the...

Evangelical Dobson Softens on McCain

Nick McMaster — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:29:36 CDT

James Dobson still won’t formally endorse John McCain, but the evangelical leader voiced support for the Republican candidate in a radio broadcast today, the AP reports. “Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation,” Dobson said, forcing...

Obama Just Wants Evangelicals Not to Fear Him

Jonas Oransky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:47:04 CDT

Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Democrats' evangelical deficit (68%-30% in 2000, 78-21% in '04)? Convince the religious right he’s not the devil. That’s a “radically different” course from the one taken by John Kerry and Al Gore, what Jeff Greenfield, on Slate, calls a “reassurance strategy”—“in effect, ‘OK,...

Evangelical Dobson Slams Obama

Jonas Oransky — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:00 CDT

One of the country's most prominent evangelical leaders says Barack Obama is "distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view," the AP reports. Focus on the Family head James Dobson recorded an 18-minute screed that was released ahead of his radio show today, accusing Obama...