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I have argued that on balance, the influence of the religious right probably cost the Republican ticket more than it helped it. But I have to say, religious conservatives are now being scapegoated in an almost grotesque way. Kathleen Parker, a conservative who gained noteriety for criticizing Sarah Palin during the campaign, wrote this week…

At a recent conference of religious leaders who are politically liberal, I heard the following conversation: “I’m concerned that Obama is going to put more troops into Afghanistan instead of bringing them home.” “Oh, I think he was just saying that to get elected.” “No, I think he really means that.” “Oh dear. Really?”

Mike Huckabee has been out promoting his provocative new book. In explaining his opposition to gay marriage on The View, Huckabee argued that the gay rights movement should not occupy the same moral status as the civil rights movement for blacks because blacks were subject to far more violence. I’ll let others discuss the idea…

Our beloved Crunchy was on the right track when he tried to get at the truly interesting part of the debate about Obama’s Christianity: what it says about the relevance of orthodoxy. But I’m not wild about the typology he creates for Christians. He believes that most Progressive Christianity amounts to “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”: Progressives…
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