There is now only place in the so-called big tent of the Democratic Party for those Americans who go to church. There’s a word for this special kind of unity: Division.

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It’s stated less blatantly than George W. Bush’s claim that “God speaks through me”, but the meaning is the same. Barack Obama has stated that he thinks it’s possible for him to serve as a channel for the will of God.

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California Republican Representative John Doolittle has added his name in support of H.Res. 598, a bill that proclaims support for the Ten Commandments Commission in its goals, which are to give Christian theology a determinative role in American politics and to exclude atheist Americans, Muslim Americans, secular Americans and anyone else who isn’t a Jew […]

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It’s not the job of the federal government to go around declaring which years are best to participate in religion or another. The President of the United States shouldn’t be issuing declarations that it’s a good year for Christianity in 2008, but not so much in 2009, and that 2010 is a good year to be Buddhist, while Zoroastrianism is just the thing for 2011.

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We progressives understand that someone can wear a lapel pin of the American flag, and wave the flag around a lot, and still betray the principles of liberty, equality and justice that the flag is supposed to represent. That said, Loren Davis and his idea that the American flag is somehow a tool for demonic forces from Hell is quite insane - and another good reminder of the wisdom America’s founding fathers had in separating church and state.

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Oh dear, oh dear. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee isn’t just claiming that God is on his side in the presidential race. He’s telling his followers that God is actually intervening in the race:

In this video taken at Liberty University, a student asks of Huckabee’s rise in the polls, “what do you attribute […]

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee may have refused to answer a question about Jesus’ position on the Death Penalty in a November 2007 debate, but he had no compunction about answering such a question back in 1997. Back then, on a radio program, Mike Huckabee argued that because Jesus didn’t ask for clemency when […]

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If you don’t vote for progressives, you get regressives. Take the state of Texas, where regressive politicians have been elected in especially high proportions. The regressives in office ousted Christine Castillo, the Texas Education Agency Director of Science. Why? Because she forwarded an e-mail to others which contained references to an […]

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In the Republican YouTube debate of November 2007, presidential candidates Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee noted that they were in favor of the death penalty. Tancredo and Huckabee were then asked regarding the death penalty, “What Jesus Would Do?”
Neither one answered. That they were asked this question demonstrates yet again that religious tests […]

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Not a single Republican presidential candidate refused to answer the question, or expressed any concern about the question being asked. They all eagerly submitted themselves to the religious test for public office, and in doing so, signaled their willingness to allow religious authority to subvert the Constitution and the rule of law.

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