Religious Right

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  • Haggard: Massage, meth but no gay sex

    The evangelical leader and White House confidant slides further down a slippery slope.
  • Evangelical leader reportedly admits to some of prostitute's allegations

    The Rev. Ted Haggard said initially that he'd never had homosexual sex with anyone.
  • The president, the preacher and the prostitute

    Who is the Rev. Ted Haggard?
  • The long reach of the "gay cabal"

    For the religious right, eternal vigilance is the price of bigotry.
  • Dude, where's my cross?

    Stephen Baldwin preaches to teens that Bono is in league with Satan. Don't laugh, the born-again actor is a cultural advisor to Bush and one of the most popular new evangelists in the country.
  • The GOP begins to implode

    Bush's immigration speech was a desperate attempt to keep his delicate coalition together -- but all it did was accelerate its shattering.
  • Maverick -- or panderer?

    Will John McCain abandon his principled opposition to a federal ban on gay marriage to suck up to the religious right?
  • In Bush we trust

    By pandering to Christian zealots, Bush has come close to establishing a national religious party. But reality is crashing in.
  • There's right, there's wrong, and then there's shoplifting from Target

    The president's $161,000-a-year chief domestic policy advisor is charged in a theft scheme.
  • McCain in 2008?

    From Rove to DeLay to Ralph Reed, the Arizona senator's enemies have stumbled, clearing the way for his likely run.
  • A "loss of will" and capitulation "to the worst elements in our culture"

    People, it's just a Christmas card, for Christ's sake.
  • Wells Fargo, Ford and the "radical homosexual agenda"

    The religious right targets a bank, an automaker and just about everyone else.
  • True confessions

    Men who have been through "ex-gay" Christian ministries share their stories. While some insist they have overcome homosexuality, others say they were driven to attempt suicide.
  • My gay therapy session

    To find out how "reparative therapy" works, I pretended to be gay. My licensed Christian therapist explained to me why homosexuality is a mental disorder, what the "Wizard of Oz principle" is, and why kids who can't "hit the ball or fire the gun" are more likely to be gay.
  • Turning off gays

    A loose network of Christian ministries and social workers, with the blessing of the political right, are putting gays and lesbians on the couch, determined to "cure" them.
  • Religious right would kill to stop safe sex

    The Family Research Council wants to block a vaccine that may prevent human papillomavirus (HPV), the STD thought to cause around 70 percent of cervical cancer cases.
  • Life of the Party

    Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners, tells Democrats how they can attract moderate religious voters: Be authentic and don't be afraid to use the G-word.
  • The right to impose Christianity

    The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
  • In theocracy they trust

    Christian right leaders denounced separation of church and state and prayed for a judge's deliverance to Satan. And their Capitol Hill allies were right there with them.
  • Political crackup

    By intervening in the Schiavo case, Bush moved the religious right into the heart of the GOP. Now there will be hell to pay.
  • Confederacy of shamans

    The GOP policymakers who have intervened in the Schiavo case pose as Christian moralists, but they more closely resemble tribal medicine men conducting necrophiliac rites.
  • The gospel of the rich and powerful

    Backed by the religious right, Republican lawmakers are now officially giving hell to the average American.
  • What would Falwell do?

    After years of near-invisibility, religious progressives want to regain their vanished political clout. But with conservatives claiming a monopoly on godliness, it's going to be a struggle of biblical proportions.
  • Crossing the church-state line

    Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers of becoming a "priest-ridden people," but a conservative clergy was essential to Bush's victory.
  • Joyful and triumphant

    The religious right is in heaven at the prospect of remaking the Supreme Court.
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