Like they ever left. Tonight from Focus on the Family:
Democrats Pledge to Make Stem-Cell Bill Top Priority
Move comes as no surprise to pro-lifers.
One of the first things House Democrats will do when they take command of Congress in January is reintroduce H.R. 810, the same embryonic stem-cell research bill President Bush vetoed earlier this year.
House […]

Our friends over at Talk2Action.org have been tracking the newest member of Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind” family; the video game version of the story a.k.a. “Left Behind: Eternal Forces.”
For those who are unfamiliar with the Left Behind stories entirely, check out DefCon’s feature on LaHaye and end-times theology. As for the game, here’s a snippet […]

Judge John E. Jones, who delivered the historic ruling in the Dover, PA intelligent design case, is back in the news. Jones held an event in Bennington, VT yesterday. Once again, the Judge made some very insightful remarks:
“There is a widespread misunderstanding about the rule of law. All the O’Reillys and Schlaflys and Robertsons and […]

Last weekend in Boston, Rev. Jeff Miner held an event aimed at re-examining what the Bible really says about homosexuals. The event, part of a growing movement among Christian communities to reveal that homosexuality is not the cardinal sin the religious right has tagged it as, was highlighted in this weekends Boston Globe.
Miner’s event was […]

The recently named president of the struggling Christian Coalition has stepped down a month before he was scheduled to take control of the organization, citing “differences in philosophy and vision” with the board and the desired direction of the coalition.
From the Orlando Sentinel:
The Central Florida pastor recently tapped to lead the Christian Coalition of […]

Hope everyone has a great day.
The religious right is certainly giving thanks today. They finally got a big “victory” out of Wal-Mart. From the conservative Christian, LifeSite.com:
Retail giant Wal-Mart announced Tuesday afternoon that the company will no longer use corporate money to “support or oppose highly controversial issues” such as homosexual activism. Wal-Mart had outraged […]

One of the biggest defeats the religious right suffered on Nov. 7th was the failure of an Arizona initiative banning gay marriage. The failure of the initiative — the first failure of the 28 such state marriage initiatives — came about almost entirely because the religious right went beyond banning gay marriage and extended their […]

Focus on the Family just released this press release, touting the fact that James Dobson will be the one and only guest on this Wednesday’s — Nov 22 — edition of Larry King live.
Dobson will be King’s guest for the entire hour, and is expected to make his first televised comments about the results […]

From the CBS affiliate in St. Paul, MN:
Sen. Satveer Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, was re-elected in District 50 last week. Rather than call, his Christian opponent Rae Hart Anderson offered him an e-mail concession that he said read more like a sermon. The following is the text of that e-mail message.
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Congratulations on winning the District […]

Thanks to ThinkProgress for catching all of this.
Yesterday, John McCain appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, expressing his newfound position on Roe v. Wade:
MCCAIN: I don’t think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could […]

In September, in a last ditch effort to appease the religious right, Congressional conservatives passed the Public Expression of Religion Act: a disgusting bill that would weaken our nation’s commitment to the separation of church and state by undermining the ability of Americans to challenge infringements of the establishment clause — like prayer in public […]

By Michelle Goldberg
As well all know, Bush has made some spectacularly bad personnel decisions, but even by the degraded standards of this administration, the appointment of Eric Keroack to oversee Title X is striking. Title X is the government program that provides contraceptives and other sexual health services to poor or uninsured women.
(It was signed […]

Michelle Goldberg posted a great piece on HuffingtonPost yesterday about this week’s New York Times article discussing John Hagee and his premillenial dispensationalist cohorts.
Most Jews (and, of course, most Christians) see massive military conflict in the Middle East as something to be assiduously avoided, but for many Christian Zionists, it’s a necessary step to paradise. […]

Newsweek has this whopper of a story illustrating yet again the alienating power of the religious right.
The story juxtaposes the angry, hate filled rhetoric of the traditional religious right against the increasing willingness of younger evangelicals to focus on real issues. Here’s a great quote from a Kansas based Pastor they interview in the […]

After years of (slight) warming to the idea that homosexuals just might be people too, the Roman Catholic church has taken a big step backwards.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops adopted new guidelines for gay outreach Tuesday that are meant to be welcoming, while also telling gays to be celibate since the church considers their sexuality […]