As pointed out by John, over at A Lie A Day, Ronald Reagan’s old campaign meister is back on the campaign trail, this time shilling for Mike Huckabee, the GOP’s latest Savior, now that Fred is Dead. On CNN’s Lou Dobbs show, Ed is parroting one of the religious right’s most fanciful fables: "that 26 … Continue reading Rollins Tells A Whopper For Huckabee
Month: December 2007
Romney and Kennedy: Losing Their Religion
The former liberal Governor of Massachusetts, who before being born again to the theo-conservative movement, was a pro-gay-rights-pro-choice-pro-socialized-medicine Country Club Republican, finally gave The Speech. The Speech is being compared to JFK's "I am a Catholic" speech. Indeed, the similarity of the Speeches is not in what they declare, but in what they deny. That … Continue reading Romney and Kennedy: Losing Their Religion
An Apostasy Full of Grace and Truth: Frank Schaeffer’s Crazy for God
He was once the fair-haired boy wonder of evangelicalism, there at the creation of the American Religious Right. He helped define the culture war, especially over abortion. He helped create the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, the Republican majority, the conservative Supreme Court and the New Evangelicals. Now, he's an apostate, a unborn-again seeker, a member … Continue reading An Apostasy Full of Grace and Truth: Frank Schaeffer’s Crazy for God
From Now On
The First Sunday of AdventYear AIsaiah 2:1-5Psalm 122Romans 13:8-14Matthew 24:36-44It was all a little embarrassing you see. Their father’s crazy obsession with building, this, this—whatever it was. And people lived along time then, so when they went crazy, they had a lot of years to rant. And boy could their father rant.He could rant about … Continue reading From Now On