Stories by Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner has covered the religious right for The American Prospect, The Gadflyer, and AlterNet. Her new book is God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (PoliPoint Press).
A very strange pick -- Pastor Rick Warren opposes gay marriage, doesn't believe in evolution and compared abortion to the Holocaust.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008
Why did the GOP choose a political neophyte to appeal to the religious right over a seasoned politico? Fried squirrels and economic populism.
Posted on Sep 9, 2008
A look into the shady finances and manipulative politics of America's leading televangelist hucksters.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008
Why Gingrich's latest attempt to promote himself as a high-tech visionary falls flat.
Posted on Oct 9, 2007
At the Christians United for Israel Summit, Joe Lieberman embraces the Christian nation, Jewish journalists get expelled, and attendees fret about the Iranian president's "12th Imam."
Posted on Jul 23, 2007
A look at the Christian Right's legal muscle leading the fight to end the separation of church and state.
Posted on Apr 6, 2007
A trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma lays bare the fundamentalism that made the disgraced pastor Ted Haggard live in terror of his own homosexuality.
Posted on Mar 23, 2007
The Israel lobby gives America's leading Christian Right warmonger a warm welcome.
Posted on Mar 16, 2007
Is Bush pushing for a second war or a Second Coming?
Posted on Jan 18, 2007
Some prominent proselytizers hope to save America -- and the world -- by doing some "sneaky preaching" through a new movie they're calling "one of the greatest outreach tools of the church in this century."
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
Republican presidential candidates fell all over themselve to pander to religious conservatives at last weekend's "Values Voter Summit" -- billed as the most important political event in the Christian Right's history. An AlterNet reporter covered the scene.
Posted on Sep 30, 2006
Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it's not about geopolitics -- it's about bringing about the End Times.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
Religious broadcasters are squeezing community radio right off the FM dial.
Posted on Apr 5, 2005
Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes?
Posted on Mar 1, 2005
