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Faith/Military Leaders Put $$$ Behind Call for Moral Climate Bill
By
Eric Sapp
Last week, Rep. Shuler and Perriello headlined a press conference hosted by Faith in Public Life featuring a who’s who of the faith community and rolling out the largest paid media campaign ever by progressives targeting faith voters with an ad on Christian radio voiced by Rev. Joel Hunter, (breath) and the group behind the…
To Boldly Go Where Progressives Forgot to Go….
By
Diana Butler Bass
Last Friday, my family went to see the new Star Trek movie. We really enjoyed the renewed adventures of Captain Kirk and the starship Enterprise. We weren’t alone. The audience in the nearly full theater loved the film. And it proved a happy surprise for Paramount–Star Trek pulled in twice as much in opening weekend…
Happy Progressive Mother’s Day!
By
Diana Butler Bass
Most people think of Mother’s Day as a quaint and conservative holiday honoring 1950s values, a sort of historical throw back to traditional notions of hearth and home. Let’s correct that impression by saying: Happy Progressive Mother’s Day. In May 1907, Anna Jarvis, a member of a Methodist congregation in Grafton, West Virginia, passed out…
Mainline Protestants: America’s Moral Conscience
By
Diana Butler Bass
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a survey on the views of religious Americans regarding torture. They survey found that white evangelical Protestants were the most supportive of torture–only 16% of evangelicals reject the use of torture. A whopping 62% of white evangelical Protestants think that torture is justified in most or many…
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