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.
    By Tim Grieve November 3, 2006

  • 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.
    By Tim Grieve November 3, 2006

  • The president, the preacher and the prostitute

    Who is the Rev. Ted Haggard?
    By Tim Grieve November 2, 2006

  • The long reach of the "gay cabal"

    For the religious right, eternal vigilance is the price of bigotry.
    By Tim Grieve October 17, 2006

  • 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.
    By Lauren Sandler October 9, 2006

  • 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.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 18, 2006

  • Maverick -- or panderer?

    Will John McCain abandon his principled opposition to a federal ban on gay marriage to suck up to the religious right?
    By Joe Conason May 12, 2006

  • In Bush we trust

    By pandering to Christian zealots, Bush has come close to establishing a national religious party. But reality is crashing in.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 23, 2006

  • 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.
    By Michelle Goldberg March 11, 2006

  • McCain in 2008?

    From Rove to DeLay to Ralph Reed, the Arizona senator's enemies have stumbled, clearing the way for his likely run.
    By Joe Conason March 3, 2006

  • A "loss of will" and capitulation "to the worst elements in our culture"

    People, it's just a Christmas card, for Christ's sake.
    By Tim Grieve December 7, 2005

  • Wells Fargo, Ford and the "radical homosexual agenda"

    The religious right targets a bank, an automaker and just about everyone else.
    By Tim Grieve December 5, 2005

  • 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.
    July 21, 2005

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin July 19, 2005

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin July 18, 2005

  • 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.
    By Rebecca Traister May 5, 2005

  • 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.
    By Tim Grieve May 2, 2005

  • 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.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 25, 2005

  • 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.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 11, 2005

  • 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.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 31, 2005

  • 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.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 24, 2005

  • The gospel of the rich and powerful

    Backed by the religious right, Republican lawmakers are now officially giving hell to the average American.
    By Joe Conason March 11, 2005

  • 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.
    By Amy Sullivan March 10, 2005

  • 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.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 11, 2004

  • Joyful and triumphant

    The religious right is in heaven at the prospect of remaking the Supreme Court.
    By Michelle Goldberg November 9, 2004
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